Recent studies have shown that PHP Programming language and CakePHP framework are the most commonly used technologies to built websites and web-applications. It is one of the most widely used rapid web application development frameworks. ‘Cake’ was first developed in Poland in 2005, as a special rapid application network using the PHP language. CakePHP was then released after acquiring the license from MIT. Since then CakePHP framework has evolved into one of the best framework for PHP app development. It is supported by a huge community of developers, who have contributed to the continual development and updating of the framework as well the language. Its further improvements were carried out during 2009, which introduced the Lithium version to facilitate the businesses. Its newly added features enabled the developers to build cutting edge web-apps with better interface and design strategy.

PHP 5.5 has been released as beta1 with numerous new features. It implies that no further features will be added till the next PHP release. It has included integration of Zend Optimizer+, array_column function which simplifies the extraction of columns from multidimensional arrays and support for non-scalar iterator keys via the foreach() loop. It has also included the option to modify process titles in CLI/CLI server SAPIs.