Planet CakePHP

I've been doing a lot of work with CakePHP lately and it has been amazingly satisfying developing in a framework that encourages great coding practices. More on CakePHP, specifically, later. Right now, I'd like to present some things I've learned about the architecture that CakePHP is built on. I'm talking about the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture of course.

I'm hoping most of you reading know already know a thing or two about MVC but if you don't, here is a quick overview from wikipedia.
Model-view-controller (MVC) is an architectural pattern used in software engineering. Successful use of the pattern isolates business logic from user interface
considerations, resulting in an application where it is easier to
modify either the visual appearance of the application or the
underlying business rules without affecting the other. In MVC, the model represents the information (the data) of the application and the business rules used to manipulate the data; the view corresponds to elements of the user interface such as text, checkbox items, and so forth; and the controller manages details involving the communication to the model of user actions such as keystrokes and mouse movements.