How to Install CakePHP in XAMPP

CakePHP is a free, open-source, rapid development framework for PHP. CakePHP is most popular PHP frameworks today.

The very first thing is to need download CakePHP from here. 
Then extract it in xampp/htdocs folder as below screenshot:

Next is to browse application: http://localhost/cake/ which will look like below screenshot:

Now open "C:\xampp\htdocs\cake\app\Config\core.php" and change value of following properties "Security.salt" and "Security.cipherSeed".

It will remove first 2 errors.

Then its time to connect the application to MySQL database. To do so first rename the file "C:\xampp\htdocs\cake\app\Config\database.default.php" to "C:\xampp\htdocs\cake\app\Config\database.php" and edit the file as follows:

class DATABASE_CONFIG {
    public $default = array(
        'datasource' => 'Database/Mysql',
        'persistent' => false,
        'host' => 'localhost',
        'login' => 'root',
        'password' => '',
        'database' => 'cake',
        'prefix' => '',
        'encoding' => 'utf8',
    );
}

And finally:

To change the content of home page, edit: APP/View/Pages/home.ctp.
To change layout, edit: APP/View/Layouts/default.ctp.
You can also add some CSS styles for your pages at: APP/webroot/css.