5 Core Components
CakePHP has a number of built-in components. They provide out of the box functionality for several commonly used tasks.
| Acl | The Acl component provides an easy to use interface for database and ini based access control lists. |
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| Auth | The auth component provides an easy to use authentication system using a variety of authentication processes, such as controller callbacks, Acl, or Object callbacks. |
| Session | The session component provides a storage independent wrapper to PHP's sessions. |
| RequestHandler | The request handler allows you to introspect further into the requests your visitors and inform your application about the content types and requested information. |
| Security | The security component allows you to set tighter security and use and manage HTTP authentication. |
| An interface that can be used to send emails using one of several mail transfer agents including php's mail() and smtp. | |
| Cookie | The cookie component behaves in a similar fashion to the SessionComponent in that it provides a wrapper for PHP's native cookie support. |
To learn more about each component see the menu on the left, or learn more about creating your own components.
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