Comments on: What’s your favorite PHP framework?

By: tiffanybbrown

tiffanybbrown — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:54:47 +0000

SitePoint has a list of 16 PHP Frameworks, some of which are not mentioned above or in the comments.

By: Sebas

Sebas — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:50:29 +0000

Personally, Zend is a must !

It should be mastered first, than other like Pear should be mastered as well.

By: webmaster

webmaster — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:00:06 +0000

codeigniter is one of the most used PHP frameworks, along with strong user community.

By: Pelle

Pelle — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:11:03 +0000

With all due respect, I think this list (including its comments) lacks of the very best PHP framework available: YII.

YII is probably not listed because it is quite new, but it is very feature rich. It has all the MVC stuff, i18n, l10n, jQuery integration(!), it has command line tools for creating applications, models, scaffolds and more, it uses every database that can be handled by PDO, it is the most straigtforward framework I have seen so far (I learned to know it in detail it in less than 1 day), very well documented, and best of all: it is by far the fastest and most stable framework out there so far. (Compared to similar frameworks like CI, Prado, CakePHP, Symfony and Zend) No catch! (Unless you plan on running PHP4.)

If you plan on using PHP5, I'd really recommand you to give YII a try. Watch the screencast at their website.

By: jam3s

jam3s — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:22:37 +0000

Havent had much experience with php frameworks but
yii looks promising.

By: tiffany

tiffany — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:22:57 +0000

Thanks Juli. That’s good to know. I’ve updated the post accordingly. It doesn’t look like Qcodo is dead, however. Is the Qcodo project still active?

By: juli

juli — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:55:05 +0000

qcodo is now forked as qcubed. The site is http://www.qcu.be

There are some really good people working on it and I would tell anyone to give it a try.

By: steward

steward — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:54:26 +0000

Been shopping for a few weeks, awful tired of trying out new stuff!!
No decision yet, but have to disagree with the cake votes. I never did get it running and the community support was ‘unfortunate’ to put it nicely.

CodeIgnitor has been the easiest so far. Still shopping…

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:22:30 +0000

People just getting into MVC or those of you who are unfortunately covered in Cake, it’s time to look at the Fuse PHP Framework. Get serious about decreasing your development time and intuitively using the features the framework offers. Read this article:

http://jimkeller.blogspot.com/2008/09/why-you-should-do-your-php-development.html

By: praveen

praveen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:58:47 +0000

i haven’t tried any of framework BUT i think codeigniter would be best for me to start.

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By: Nahun

Nahun — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:04:32 +0000

Well I really like the Zend Framework, it has the backup of Zend and the MVC is well defined and easy to setup, clear SEO friendly URLs are easy to configure, a really simple DB abstraction and interaction, full OOP in php5, lots of documentation and tutorials and more. Although there are components that are unnecessarily complicated(Zend_Form for example) I find it really easy to use. I guess all depends on how you like to work, to me, Zend is the choice.

By: Mason

Mason — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:09:11 +0000

I chose PHP5. I think understanding how to access that which I need is much more productive for me. PHP5, Yahoo UI and some JSON is my framework of choice. All these layered fluff is starting to become less OOP and much more of a multi-layered bloated chaos. You can create the same with less fluff with PHP. Then again, I’m justa passin thru here!

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:52:32 +0000

You may consider this one too – qphp.net. It is ASP.NET like, object oriented, event driven, component based, ajax support, i18n support, highly customizeable.

By: James

James — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:14:36 +0000

I chose CodeIgnitor because of the easo of installation and configuration, the light footprint, and speed. It is also an easy way to begin using a framework. Maybe when I have more experience with it, I will start to stretch and try some of the others I looked at. But if you need to get going on a project immediately, it seems the best way to go.