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Welcome to Cake! You're probably checking out this tutorial because you want to learn more about how Cake works. It's our aim to increase productivity and make coding more enjoyable: we hope you'll see this as you dive into the code.

This tutorial will walk you through the creation of a simple blog application. We'll be getting and installing Cake, creating and configuring a database, and creating enough application logic to list, add, edit, and delete blog posts.

Here's what you'll need:

1. A running web server. We're going to assume you're using Apache, though the instructions for using other servers should be very similar. We might have to play a little with the server configuration, but most folks can get Cake up and running without any configuration at all.
2. A database server. We're going to be using mySQL in this tutorial. You'll need to know enough about SQL in order to create a database: Cake will be taking the reins from there.
3. Basic PHP knowledge. The more object-oriented programming you've done, the better: but fear not if you're a procedural fan.
4. Finally, you'll need a basic knowledge of the MVC programming pattern. A quick overview can be found in Chapter "Beginning With CakePHP", Section : Understanding Model-View-Controller. Don't worry: its only a half a page or so.

Let's get started!