php people...frameworks?
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CakePHP left a really bad impression on me, but when I eventually tried CodeIgniter I realized it wasn't that PHP frameworks were bad it was just Cake. Leave that shit alone! Maybe it's better now, 2 years later, but at the time it was really slow and very poorly documented assuming you wanted to do more than what was in their basic blog tutorial.
I'm a big fan of CodeIgniter these days - it's a breeze to set up and get working, it's extremely flexible, the documentation is fantastic, and the forums are generally a good resource for help. Anecdotally it's faster than Cake, but I've seen some benchmarks that back that up. Hell, Rasmus Lerdorf, the guy who invented PHP, in a talk some time ago, although conceding that he doesn't like frameworks, recommended CodeIgniter over Cake, Drupal, and even Zend I believe.