Actually, the CookBook provides two tutorials; one leads you through creating a simple CakePHP application, the other concentrates on authentication and security features.

I chose to install PHP myself and configure it for use in WebMatrix (see Brian Swan's tutorial). After doing that, I tested the new PHP Drivers for SQL Server. The August release added PDO support, ...

Yii The Yii framework requires PHP 5.1.0 or later. Like Qcodo, Yii generates actual PHP source code to get your application off the ground, via a pair of tools: Yiic and Gii.