WHAT IS CAKEPHP? and Benefits?

CakePHP is a free, open-source, rapid development framework for PHP. It’s a foundational structure for programmers to create web applications. Our primary goal is to enable you to work in a structured and rapid manner–without loss of flexibility.
CakePHP takes the monotony out of web development. We provide you with all the tools you need to get started coding what you really need to get done: the logic specific to your application. Instead of reinventing the wheel every time you sit down to a new project, check out a copy of CakePHP and get started with the real guts of your application.
CakePHP has an active developer team and community, bringing great value to the project. In addition to keeping you from wheel-reinventing, using CakePHP means your application’s core is well tested and is being constantly improved.
Here’s a quick list of features you’ll enjoy when using CakePHP:
  Active, friendly community
Flexible licensing
Compatible with versions 4 and 5 of PHP
Integrated CRUD for database interaction
Application scaffolding
Code generation
MVC architecture
Request dispatcher with clean, custom URLs and routes
Built-in validation
Fast and flexible templating (PHP syntax, with helpers)
View Helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms and more
Email, Cookie, Security, Session, and Request Handling Components
Flexible ACL
Data Sanitization
Flexible Caching
Localization
Works from any web site directory, with little to no Apache configuration involved

Benefits

Why use MVC? Because it is a tried and true software design pattern that turns an application into a maintainable, modular, rapidly developed package. Crafting application tasks into separate models, views, and controllers makes your application very light on its feet. New features are easily added, and new faces on old features are a snap. The modular and separate design also allows developers and designers to work simultaneously, including the ability to rapidly prototype. Separation also allows developers to make changes in one part of the application without affecting others.
If you've never built an application this way, it takes some time getting used to, but we're confident that once you've built your first application using CakePHP, you won't want to do it any other way.