13 Jul Comparison of best PHP Frameworks
Comparison of best PHP frameworks
The topic “which is the best php framework to use” has become very important these days. There are various php frameworks and to choose best framework for developing is somehow tricky. Here is a comparison of php frameworks based on framework’s features.
PHP framework modified to the developer specific needs.
Features
Here are some most important features of the main PHP frameworks which are being summarized.
Object-relational mapping (ORM):
These components help developers to alter databases access in a friendlier object oriented manner. Instead of manipulating records, developers manipulate objects and could most of the time forget about all the SQL queries that go behind the sight.
Code generation:
By code generation feature developers life becomes much easier as it create files and default content automatically so developers don’t have to create.
Edge Side Includes (ESI):
ESI allows, with a compliant gateway cache, to cache a page fully and to update only parts of the page that have changed.
Survey based PHP frameworks result
Lots has changed in the PHP world in the past 365 days and the PHP framework vision is more densely populated than ever.
In a small survey held at the end of 2013, questions were asked to decide which frameworks deserve developers attention in 2014 the most. This was the result of the survey with the following data.
Now according to these results, the most promising frameworks for 2014 seem to be:
• Laravel
www.laravel.com
• Phalcon
www.phalconphp.com
• Symfony2
www.symfony.com 
Yii and CodeIgniter will be at 4th place.
Laravel community mostly favors the ease of entry with almost no learning curve. Considering it an easy to enter market, but the excellent documentation and speed of development definitely work in its favor. Another advantage of Laravel is an active and remarkably alive IRC channel where help is given instantly.
An interesting misjudgment seems to be that Laravel is responsible for Composer. Many developers think that Composer is the main advantage of Laravel, alongside Eloquent ORM and the Blade template engine, which is absolute strange. Composer is a package manager completely unaware to the framework it’s being used with.
The main advantage of Phalcon is performance over other frameworks. It is a fact that this framework is such a rounded up package (ORM, template engine, PHQL and more, no need of third party libs, C-based and superfast).
When talking about Symfony2, it is hyped as the most modular and extensible among all of the PHP frameworks and the most feature complete, mainly due to containing Doctrine2. However, developers seem to be admitting that it’s quite overstuffed and slow at times due to this feature.