Cake-Skeleton is a project mainly written in PHP, it's free.
Generic skeleton
This is a bare repo of CakePHP 1.2.5.
It is intended as a base for multiple applications.
There is a skel that includes many useful helpers to bake projects from.
To run the schema, you will need to change the class name in config/sql/schema.php to match your application directory. If your directory is titled 'awesome', your schema should read
<?php class AwesomeSchema extends CakeSchema { ... } ?>