• Cake PHP supports MVC architecture which helps the developer to follow a structured development methodology suitable for achieving maintainability and scalability.
• The logical separation of layers greatly helps in locate and fix errors thus testing and debugging become simpler.
• The user interface to be as creative as possible while allowing for a robust integration with the database.
• It helps professionals or developers to reduce code repentance in creation of website.
• Upgradeable infrastructure. when a new release of the framework is available the site can easily be upgraded to use the better code without having to worry about loosing any or most of the functionality that is available.

Some of the Cakephp Development Features are:

• Compatible with PHP4 as well as PHP5.
• It helps developers to reduce code repentance in creation of websites or web applications.
• Cake is easy to understand and sets the industry standards in security, session handling, among other things.
• fast, flexible Templating. (PHP syntax with helper methods)
• Cool Scaffolding: It is a great way of getting the early parts of developing a web application started.
• Built in view helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms..
• It provides powerful and flexible data validation features..
• It is developed under the MIT license so it is free for everyone.
• Works from any web site directory, with little to no Apache configuration involved.