= CakePHP Introduction =

The CakePHP framework is quite well-documented, and a big advantage for us is that all Cake sites work in basically the same way - so the learning curve for people who have experience with Model-View-Controller design patterns, or the PHP language, or both, should be pretty quick.

Cake Coding Standards : https://trac.cakephp.org/wiki/Developement/CodingStandards

Here are some links to get people started:

 * the main CakePHP site is at http://www.cakephp.org/
 * installation instructions:
   * http://manual.cakephp.org/chapter/installing (cakephp 1.1.*)
   * http://book.cakephp.org/view/32/Installation (cakephp 1.2.*)
 * a basic tutorial (make a blog in 15 minutes) is at:
   * http://manual.cakephp.org/appendix/blog_tutorial (cakephp 1.1.*)
   * http://book.cakephp.org/view/219/Blog (cakephp 1.2.*)
 * cakephp has an irc channel on freenode #cakephp
 * additional resources:
   * http://cakebaker.42dh.com/
   * http://mark-story.com/posts
   * http://teknoid.wordpress.com/