Twelve reasons why use CakePHP for web development

CakePHP is a PHP based open-source framework  developed for rapid web application development. CakePHP is consistently improving.  Here are the twelve reasons why should consider CakePHP for your website development.

1. CakePHP is very easy to learn
2. CakePHP developer community is very active and friendly
3. It works with  PHP 4 and after
4. Integrated CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) for database interaction. Instead of writing each CRUD operation by hand, it has prebuilt classes that do it for you
5. Code generation – Rapid development
6. Employees MVC architecture , thus enables clean separation between presentation, business logic and back end
7. Request dispatcher with clean, custom URLs and routes – Easy to build SEO friendly URLs
8. Built-in validation – No need to write your own code for common validations such email, credit card etc
9. Fast and flexible templating (PHP syntax, with helpers)
10. View Helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms which enables a CakePHP developer to write web application with rich user experience
11. In built components for Email, Cookie, Security, Session, and Request Handling
12. Finally , you don't need an expensive hosting for CakePHP even shared hosting will do just fine