Web Developer

Agree..

Try these: http://www.zftutorials.com/ http://www.killerphp.com/zend-framework/videos/ http://www.phpeveryday.com/articles/...rial-P840.html

A framework is a hierarchical directory that encapsulates shared resources, such as a dynamic shared library, nib files, image files, localized strings, header files, and reference documentation in a single package. Multiple applications can use all of these resources simultaneously. The system loads them into memory as needed and shares the one copy of the resource among all applications whenever possible.

No need to use auth component because its inbuilt in cakePHP and if you using inbuilt then it saves password with its default SALT security... so you don't have to encrypt it at time of insert.. $this->Auth->password('Your pasword'); - this way you can store default and same way you can get also.. it always return its encrypt value