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Best PHP framework

On this web page we will expose only the best PHP frameworks. So, after you read this you will also find out which PHP framework is right for you and your needs. Feel free to read all to the bottom. After framework's description you will see list of books we recommend for you. Have a look at them!

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We will look under the hood of:
- Yii
- CodeIgniter
- CakePHP
- Zend Framework
- Symfony
- PRADO
- Kohana

Yii

The Fast, Secure and Professional PHP Framework

Yii is a high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications.

Yii comes with rich features: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc. It can reduce your development time significantly.

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CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you're a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you're tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks

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Symfony

Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP.

It provides an architecture, components and tools for developers to build complex web applications faster. Choosing symfony allows you to release your applications earlier, host and scale them without problem, and maintain them over time with no surprise.

Symfony is based on experience. It does not reinvent the wheel: it uses most of the best practices of web development and integrates some great third-party libraries.

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Zend Framework

Extreme Simplicity & Productivity

Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr, as well as API providers and cataloguers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb.

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CakePHP

CakePHP enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications.

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.

Amazon - CakePHP

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Useful links

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HOW TO: Choose a PHP Framework for Your Next Project
There's no doubt that web frameworks have exploded in popularity over the past few years, and while it's likely that a large part of that growth can be attributed to Ruby on Rails, the outpouring of MVC frameworks in other languages is no less impressive.
PHP Frameworks
We compare all kinds of PHP frameworks and help you choose the right php framework for your project.

Kohana

An elegant HMVC PHP5 framework that provides a rich set of components for building web applications.

Build applications quickly
Many common components are included: translation tools, database access, code profiling, encryption, validation, and more.

A very fast framework
Benchmarking a framework is hard and rarely reflects the real world, but Kohana is very efficient and carefully optimized for real world usage.

Work with objects and classes
This is an OOP framework that is extremely DRY. Everything is built using strict PHP 5 classes and objects.

...and much more!

Amazon - Kohana

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Comments?

  • daria369 Aug 26, 2011 @ 7:22 pm | delete
    Nicely done! :)
  • gogy Aug 15, 2011 @ 3:06 pm | delete
    Do you have any expirience with multilanguage support with each framework? Which one has the best way of handling with multilingual interface?
  • GreenOasis Aug 14, 2011 @ 1:20 pm | delete
    Nice done. Thanks for this.
  • bobo05 Aug 14, 2011 @ 11:59 am | delete
    Wery nice. I always wanted to know a little more about PHP, but after reading your lenses, I will definetly give it a try!
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