Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Provides a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.

I don't like to use WordPress or any other blog system, the reason for this you can read it here: Once you start doubting, there's no end to it, so I (re)wrote my own. Initially was written only using some classes, no framework, code contained design and it was hard to maintain. So I decided to build something more flexible, for this I needed a framework.

After many hours off googleing I found a few PHP based frameworks, like: CakePHP Zend, Seagull and others. I got into reading about Cake, Zend and Seagull and from all these Cake was the only one that suited my needs. At this point I had not much experience in working with Model View Controller(MVC) structure. I started reading the manual then I got confused and needed help. CakePHP offers support on an irc network and they are really nice and willing to help others out.

After 2 days of learning and working in Cake I succeeded. It is much easier and flexible to work using a framework then only simple functions and classes.