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, ...

The lesser-known Qcodo, Yii, Seagull, and Lithium PHP frameworks may not be as extensive as Zend Framework and Symfony or as approachable as CakePHP and CodeIgniter, but they have other virtues to ...