anybody have or used this cms?

any input and knowledge on this would be great

http://cakephp.org/

Cake php is one of the best PHP frameworks around. Read more about it and MVC patter on wikipedia. Other good framework is kohana.

I'm a front end web designer just starting to venture into back end web development. I'm having trouble deciding what I should learn. I've narrowed it down to CakePHP or Ruby on Rails. I don't have any experience with PHP or Ruby.

Originally Posted by loisenill

I'm a front end web designer just starting to venture into back end web development. I'm having trouble deciding what I should learn. I've narrowed it down to CakePHP or Ruby on Rails. I don't have any experience with PHP or Ruby.

Cakephp is a framework, not a language itself. I suggest that if you're going to get started with programming, and you decide to go the PHP route, you learn the language before moving on to frameworks (if you even decide to use a framework).

RoR is also a framework, but I think that it is more or less the standard for Ruby web apps (I could be wrong, I'm not a ruby developer).