[jamongkad]

Personally I would go for either CodeIgniter or it's more well built cousin Kohana.

[warfangle]

Thanks for the tipoff to kohana- as a past CI user I've looked for something similar but not bogged down like cake is.

Of course, I've recently begun to climb the fence to greener pastures (scala/lift), but clients still like php no matter how I loathe it :)

[jamongkad]

Word...though I think you'd be pleased to know that Kohana is one of the better engineered PHP code bases out there.