Following are some feature of Cakephp.
*Full support of (MVC)Model, View, Controller Architecture.
*Scaffolding.
*Very nice Code generation via Bake.
*Helpers for HTML, Forms, Pagination, AJAX, Javascript, XML, RSS and more.
*Access Control Lists and Authentication (ACL & Auth).
*Router for mapping urls and handling extensions.
*Security, Session, and RequestHandler Components.
*Utility classes for working with Files, Folders, Arrays and more.
*can manage multiple site(apps) developement.
*Internationalization and Localization with static translations in gettext style or dynamic translations of model data.
*Full Console environment with support for multiple tasks. Included shells: bake, schema, acl, i18 extractor, api.
*CSRF protection via Security Component.
*HTTP Authentication via Security Component.
*Flexible Caching: use memcache, apc, xcache, the file system, or a model to speed up your application
*Configure class to provide dynamic handling of configuration settings and App class to handle importing required classes.
*Now Supports Unit Testing application.
*Integration with Crusecontrol and Ant.