CakePHP for beginners

This is my attempt to help you out if you are starting to learn cakephp.

If you want to install CakePHP in xampp, the below link will be helpful for you.
http://narenbimal.blogspot.com/2008/07/cake-is-php-web-development-framework.html

For the basic knowledge and tutorial you can go to the site.
http://book.cakephp.org/view/879/Beginning-With-CakePHP

To start learning with CakePHP, I found tutorials on youtube. It makes learning easy and convenient as we get the clear idea of what should be done. The uploader 'Andrew Perk' has made 10 tutorials starting from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO9oSQhRa9s
You can view the rest 9 tutorials from the suggestions.

He has also made 3 more tutorials for authentication i.e. for login and logout which starts from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjXAnizmR94
You can also see other tutorials there.

Hope you found this information useful.
Happy Coding!!