The Bakery Everything CakePHP

Two weeks after I've downloaded cakephp I still can't bake a project even after following a few outdated tutorials. The documentation for cakephp is horrendous at best. Yeah, I said horrendous at best. Sometimes the truth hurts. I'm also sure that I'm not the first to notice that fact. If cakephp intends on being the framework of choice for developers they better get the documentation in order. Before I switch to another framework....I'll struggle a few more hours with the outdated cakephp documentation. What is there 18 cakephp developers and 0 to update documentation? Just speaking the truth....end of rant.
having used cake, symfony, codeignitor, zend, as well as several smaller frameworks i have to say that cake is probably one of the most well documented and easy to get started with php frameworks. i found more than enough documentation on cakePHP.org as well as the bakery to get started. i also suggest trying to google group.

as for outdated code - there is a lot of pre 1.2 code floating around but it should at least work with 1.2 (although you will get depreciation warnings).

MVC and ORM can be a little tricky to wrap your head around at first so i'd also recommend reading some primers (wikipedia has several great articles) to get a firm understanding on how things work.

sorry to hear you're frustrated but i've found the amount of available documentation, examples, support for cake to be great...