Geek, Developer, Entrepreneur, Startup addict, MVP artist.
I learned to use CakePHP from the source and have been using it for a few years now.
They have great resources on cakephp.org for learning the platform take a look at their blog tutorial and the also post videos.
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/getting-started.html
Let me know if you need any help I could get you started or follow up on any gotchas