For web developers, PHP is a very powerful and popular programming language. Many of the world's top websites are developed based on PHP. In this article, we will review the 20 best PHP frameworks in 2014.
Every developer knows that having a powerful framework can make development work faster, safer and more effective. Choosing a suitable framework before developing a project can lay a solid foundation for the future. You can use the following 20 PHP frameworks selectively, which will definitely help you.
1. Laravel
Laravel is a free and open source PHP application framework. It is designed for developing MVC-based WEB applications. Personally, I think Laravel is the best PHP framework in 2014. It can help you create some cool things. WEB applications, and can easily use functions such as permission verification, URL routing, Session and caching.
2. Phalcon
Phalcon is the fastest running PHP framework. Its bottom layer is implemented in C, but the upper layer provides some PHP extensions. As a PHP framework, Phalcon is known for its high performance and low consumption. Although it is implemented in C language, we do not need to use C language, you can use it as long as you know PHP.
3. Symfony
Symfony is a PHP framework for web projects, which can help you speed up the creation and maintenance of PHP applications. Symfony can help you save a lot of repetitive coding work, allowing you to shift your focus to design and control.
Symfony is a reusable PHP component. It is open source software based on the MIT license. Many CMS systems and forum programs are developed based on Symfony, such as Drupal and phpBB.
4. Yii
Yii is a fast, safe and professional PHP framework. It is also a high-performance PHP framework for developing WEB 2.0 applications. Yii is very powerful and has the following built-in functions: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N, permissions Authentication, caching, security controls, testing, data access objects, etc.
5. CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter is a very agile open source PHP framework. If you want to use PHP to develop a simple and elegant toolkit, then CodeIgniter is very suitable.
6. CakePHP
CakePHP is an old PHP framework. Because of its excellence, it was also included in the best PHP frameworks in 2014. The stable version is now V3.0. CakePHP can help you create PHP applications simply and quickly, and you can achieve powerful functions with very little code.
7. Aura
If you like to create applications with concise code, then you can choose to use Aura. Aura also has a large number of users. The usage method is similar to CakePHP. Aura’s main goal is to provide PHP developers with a high-quality, reliable A framework for testing,standardizing components.
8. Zend Framework
I have used Zend 1 and Zend 2 in large-scale WEB projects in the past few years. As a top PHP framework, Zend is indeed easier to use and has rich documentation. We can use Zend to create some very scalable PHP applications.
9. Kohana
Kohana is an agile but powerful PHP framework. We can use Kohana to quickly create web applications because it has rich components, such as data access interfaces, code analysis, encryption and verification, etc.
10. Slim framework
Slim is a lightweight PHP framework. As a micro-framework, Slim allows you to simply create some powerful applications and API interfaces. Slim has powerful routing capabilities, custom view templates, flash messaging, AES-256 encrypted secure cookies, HTTP caching, customizable logging, exception handling as well as debugging and simple configuration.
11. Fuel PHP
Fuel PHP is a simple and scalable PHP framework. Based on the design concepts of other frameworks, Fuel is already in V2.0 version and currently knows the beta version.
Fuel fully supports HMVC, which is also part of the Fuel architecture. In addition, Fuel's powerful routing function allows you to flexibly handle the correspondence between controllers and views.
12. Flight
Flight is a highly scalable micro-PHP framework. Flight allows you to quickly create REST-style web applications. It requires PHP5.3 or above version support. Of course, Flight is also open source based on the MIT license.
13. Medoo
I like this micro-framework very much. Medoo is the most lightweight PHP framework and can be used to speed up our application development. It only has a file of 13KB, is very simple to learn and use, and Medoo is also open source.
14.PHPixie
PHPixie is a lightweight PHP MVC framework. It is very small and has comprehensive documentation. We only need to configure it as much as possible.
15. Pop PHP
Pop is a powerful and easy-to-learn PHP framework, and provides many detailed API interfaces and documents, supporting PHP5.3 and above. Now, Pop PHP still maintains its lightweight characteristics. Although many new features are gradually added to Pop, it is still very convenient to use.
16. Simple MVC Framework
The installation of Simple MVC Framework is extremely simple, the code structure is also very simple, and it is easy to learn. We only need to set the website path to successfully install it. There are also discussion areas for Simple MVC Framework in Twitter and Facebook groups. It is lightweight and less than 1M in size.
17. TYPO3 Flow
TYPO3 is managed and developed by TYPO3, one of the largest PHP communities, and is also an open source PHP framework.
18. Nette
A very popular PHP development tool, its design concept is to be as simple and secure as possible. Nette has considered your website security for you, including XSS attacks, Session hijacking, Session tampering and other security issues.
19. Agavi
Agavi is a PHP MVC framework based on PHP5. It helps developers write concise code and has very good scalability.
20. Silex
Silex is also a micro-PHP framework based on PHP5.3 and above. The API of Silex is very interesting to use, because the API is simple and clear enough. It uses Pimple's services to become a great third-party extension application.
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