CakePHP is an open source web application framework written in PHP, modeled after the concepts of Ruby on Rails. CakePHP makes it easier for the user to interface with the database with active records. It also encourages use of the model-view-controller architectural pattern.

                 Cake PHP facilitates::

·      Compatible with PHP4 and PHP5

·         Integrated CRUD for database and simplified querying

·         Request dispatcher with custom URLs

·         Templating (PHP syntax with helper methods)

·         View helpers for AJAX, Javascript, HTML forms

·         Website directory independent

·         Built-in validation

·         Access control lists (ACL)

·         Application scaffolding

·         Data sanitization

·         Security, session, and request handling components

·         View caching

Zend Framework

Zend Framework is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5.

          Zend facilitates::

·         All components are fully object-oriented PHP 5 and are E STRICT compliant

·         Use-at-will architecture with loosely coupled components and minimal interdependencies

·         Extensible MVC implementation supporting layouts and PHP-based templates by default

·         Flexible Table Gateway implementation for accessing data from a relational database in an object-oriented environment

·         Support for multiple database systems and vendors, including MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Informix Dynamic Server

·         Authentication and ACL-based authorization using a variety of backend systems

·         Data filtering and validation for enhanced application security

·         Session management

·         Configuration component to promote consistent configuration management throughout the Zend Framework and ZF applications

·         Email composition and delivery, retrieval via mailbox, Maildir, POP3 and IMAP4

·         Indexing and search that supports the Lucene index file format

·         Internationalization and localization

·         Creation of forms using PHP, configuration files, or XML

·         Identity 2.0 technologies such as Microsoft InfoCard and OpenID

·         Multiple formats for web services, including XML-RPC, REST, and Google GData.

·         Flexible caching sub-system with support for many types of backends, such as memory or a file system.

·         Simple logging component inspired by log4j

·         Native-PHP component for reading, updating, and creating PDF documents

·         Serialization of PHP data structures to and from JSON to facilitate AJAX development

·         API for consuming RSS and Atom feeds

·         Client libraries for many web services out of the box, including Amazon E-Commerce Service , Akismet, del.icio.us, Flickr, StrikeIron, Yahoo!, Audioscrobbler, and Simpy.

 Agile Experience

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