Today we will be going over the basic setup and configuration of the rapid application framework CakePHP. Actual cakephp development will be covered over a series of tutorials, but for this one, we will be getting the environment ready for future use. It is an easy and simple process, and does not take huge amounts of time. That is the beauty of such frameworks: Rapid Development and Deployment.

Soon, well eventually, the blog is going to get a refresh - and we are currently building that refresh in Drupal, which is an open source CMS. To that end, getting Drupal setup on my machine wasn't particularly a hard procedure, but is slightly complex if you aren't used to setting up a local server and database. So if you fall under that category than this tutorial is for you. First you must know that this tutorial is aimed for Windows users and Drupal 6.X.