Learning a new framework can be intimidating and exciting at the same time. To help you along, we have created a cookbook packed with examples and recipes to get the common tasks completed. If you are new, you should start off with the Quick Start Guide as it will give you a quick tour of what CakePHP has to offer and how it works.
After you’ve finished the Quickstart tutorial, you can brush up on the key elements in a CakePHP application:
The CakePHP request cycle
The conventions that CakePHP uses
Controllers handle requests and co-ordinate your models and the responses your application creates
Views are the presentation layer in your application. They give you powerful tools to create HTML, JSON and the other outputs your application needs
Models are the key ingredient in any application. They handle validation, and domain logic within your application
