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

Symfony, sponsored by Sensio Labs, is a well-known PHP framework that integrates a number of open source PHP projects. (For example, Symfony uses the Zend framework’s logging system.) Conversely ...

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, ...