basic site concept

Hello all, thanks for having this group available for newbies like
myself. I have a pretty basic question that Im having a very difficult
time finding an answer on. I've done google searches, read the cakephp
manual and I am also reading the book "Beginning CakePHP" by David
Golding which is a great book by the way.

Any way I've never used a framework before and Im totally new to the
MVC concept. Ive done a couple tutorials such as the blog and also a
to-do list. I have a site I will be converting over to cakephp and
want to make sure I am using best practices and that I understand the
basic concept.

So my question is; if Im building a whole website, is the whole
website a "cakephp app" or does my whole website have many "cakephp
apps"?

Through my reading it seems every tutorial is based on just a piece of
a website (ie: blog) and every tutorial required a new cake folder
with the usual contents (app, controllers, views, webroot etc.).

I need to make a single typical website with the usual stuff like
products section, support section with search/download functionality
and contact/request forms.

Im not sure if each one of these things are supposed to be different
apps or if the whole site is in one app. It seems a bit cumbersome to
keep adding cake folders over and over on a single site but nothing
Ive read says otherwise. Also, If you are supposed to keep adding cake
folder after cake folder you would endup with multiple webroot folders
which also kinda of boggles my mind.

Your help is greatly appreciated and I do apologize for having such a
primitive question but I have no where else to go but here.

Thanks again!

Cheers,

Clint

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