I'm not too familiar with CakePHP, but there's also CodeIgniter. I found this fairly detailed comparison when I did a bit of searching: http://snook.ca/archive

I'm not too familiar with CakePHP, but there's also CodeIgniter. I found this fairly detailed comparison when I did a bit of searching: http://snook.ca/archives/php/codeigniter_vs_cakephp/ http://snook.ca/archives/php/codeigniter_vs_cakephp/ If you want a bit of templating functionality without using an entire framework, I sometimes use a less-well-known PHP templating system called Smarty (http://www.smarty.net http://www.smarty.net), which is very easy to get the hang of, and it's just as fast as using pure PHP (because Smarty actually converts your templates to plain PHP code).