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I’ve just started a new project with a built-in CMS called Wildflower which is based off of the CakePHP framework.  Here is a quick synopsis on the main features.

Advantages:

• Code separation. Understand the difference between view and business logic.
• RESTful architecture.
• Unit testing.
• The heart of Wildflower is the CakePHP framework.

Disadvantages:

• Relatively new framework compared to Ruby on Rails.
• Basically a PHP version of Ruby on Rails.
• Had a few unpredictable errors.

Overall, the framework worked great for the project and I was able to iterate through prototypes very quickly.  That said, I wouldn’t do another project with it.  Why?  Because I just completed a project using learned Ruby on Rails.  Having done a project using both frameworks, I found RoR to be far more superior than CakePHP.