[fwez]

I'd say definitely give Cake a serious look. It was a steep learning curve for me at the beginning. The documentation leaves much to be desired compared to other PHP frameworks, but it's getting better. I've never had any major complaints about CakePHP and have been using it for multiple personal and school (scientific research) projects. Recently the lead developer and the project manager left the project and started the Li3 project (http://li3.rad-dev.org/). I did not perceive a change in the rate and quality of CakePHP's core development as a result of that.