CakePHP

PHP MVC web framework with an ORM, code generation and convention-based configuration.

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Status

Not in the default view: no rising activity, download growth or wide use measured. What decides the default view

Kind

Categories: Web frameworks 2
Hosting needs: PHP
Written in: PHP 2
Runtime: PHP 4
Minimum runtime: php 8.24 7

Content

Databases: MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite 4
Templating: php8
Multilingual: yes9

License

License model: Open source 2
License: MIT2

Built on it: baserCMS, Croogo

Hosting needs

Hosts that run: PHP
Managed databases: MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite

Hosting for CakePHP

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Owned by, First release, Headquarters, Built on, Content storage, Admin interface, Content API, Contributors, Plugins, Downloads a month, Active installs (WordPress.org)

CakePHP is an MVC framework for PHP with an ORM for database work, code generation from the command line, and configuration by convention. Views are plain PHP templates; Twig is available through a separate plugin. The framework ships with internationalization and localization libraries.

The Cake Software Foundation holds the copyright. Commercial development and support come from CakeDC, the commercial entity behind the framework, established by the founder of CakePHP. The installation guide describes the project skeleton and the official Docker image.

Identity

Status: Active
Maintainer: Cake Software Foundation, Inc.1
Maintained by: Foundation 5

Rendering and deploy

Runs as: Per request 4
Rendering: On a server 8
Install with: composer create-project cakephp/app, docker, ddev4

Releases

Current major version: 510
Last release: 2026-10-0310

Adoption

GitHub stars: 8,7882
Packagist downloads: 21,137,02511
Packagist downloads a month: 526,07515
Sites using it (HTTP Archive): 8,04913
Dependent repositories: 5,52514
Dependent packages: 1,51414

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

2026-10-18: name, Maintainer
cakephp.org
2026-10-18: links, Categories, Written in, License, License model, GitHub stars
github.com/cakephp/cakephp
2026-10-18: links
github.com/cakephp/app
2026-10-18: links, Runtime, Minimum runtime, Databases, Install with, Runs as
book.cakephp.org/5.x/installation.html
2026-10-18: Maintained by
cakefoundation.org
2026-10-18: wikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q647055
2026-10-18: Minimum runtime
repo.packagist.org/p2/cakephp/cakephp.json
2026-10-18: Templating, Rendering
book.cakephp.org/5.x/views.html
2026-10-18: Multilingual
book.cakephp.org/5.x/core-libraries/internationalization-and-localization.html
2026-10-18: Current major version, Last release
github.com/cakephp/cakephp/releases
2026-10-18: Packagist downloads
packagist.org/packages/cakephp/cakephp.json
2026-10-18: links
plugins.cakephp.org
2026-10-25: Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies
2026-10-25: Dependent repositories, Dependent packages
packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/cakephp%2Fcakephp
2026-10-25: Packagist downloads a month
packagist.org/packages/cakephp/cakephp/stats.json

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