Advice for a newbie?

Hello,

I am an occasional database programmer, going way back to dBase days and I want to wean myself off microsoft access. CakePHP looks interesting. I have never really done anything in PHP, but I have at times studied it and believe I could master it. Tried Ruby on Rails but learning curve was steep considering I have a day job. 

So I have another project that could start off as a very simple CRUD app, but I want to make it much more powerful over time. It would store lab data. Lots of different tests on lots of samples. I built apps like this in Access b4 that were quite useful. Back to PHP and Cake. I made a virtual Ubuntu Server yesterday and installed Cake 2.6.3. Haven't gone any further. Then I read about Cake3. I like what read about the new ORM. What to do... Should I go ahead and make my simple app in 2.6.3 or start right off with the quite new version 3? Should I learn more PHP first? Can I install Cake3 side by side with Cake 2.6.3? Thanks in advance.

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