Top Frameworks Every PHP Developer Must Know

by JONATHAN PAUL Jonathan Paul working at PHPProgrammers, a leading

If you are a PHP developer, you must know how to make the best use of the top PHP frameworks. Here are the most popular names listed out for you.

PHP is also known as HyperText Processor and is a popular and easy-to-use server-side scripting language that is used for developing great web apps. There are many PHP frameworks that are used to simplify the complicated coding process while building websites or web applications. The frameworks provide a platform where the developers can easily create powerful apps much faster as compared to the other frameworks or languages. Hence, with the use of the PHP frameworks, developers can save more time and build the projects effortlessly at the same time.

Here’s the list of the top PHP frameworks you need to know, being a PHP developer.

Laravel:

This is a very popularly used open-source PHP framework, which was introduced back in the year 2011. The framework helps the developers to build the most robust web apps with many simplified tasks like security, caching, authentication and routing.

Advantages of using Laravel:

Laravel comes with features that ensure the development of the most intuitive and robust websites or web apps with complex backend.
The framework allows customisation of the projects to fit the business requirements.
It also ensures high security and speed of the websites or web apps built with Laravel, which again makes it a great choice when you are working with PHP.

Symfony:

Symfony is one of the earliest introduced frameworks of PHP, introduced in the year 2005. Because of so many years of being in the market, it has become one of the most reliable choices for web app development. Symfony is an extensive MVC-based PHP framework, which follows all the PHP standards. It shared many similar features and functionalities of Laravel.

Some of its plus points are as follows:

It is highly flexible and can be integrated with different other projects of Drupal and a few more platforms as well. You can easily install it and use it on multiple platforms.
The framework helps to build fast websites or web apps due to the reusability of the components, less memory space, and a module system.
Symfony also allows for interoperability, which again enables the PHP developers to use different software building blocks like translation management and forms management.

CodeIgniter:

CodeIgniter is one of the best PHP frameworks till now, introduced first in the year 2006 and again introduced with great improvements in 2019. Most of the developers in this field prefer to work with CodeIgniter or in short CI because of the in-built modules that makes coding much simpler and faster.

Advantages of CI:

The first point that makes CI a developer’s first choice is the high speed of the web apps developed with it.
It is the perfect PHP framework for the beginners as it comes with a pretty simple set of libraries to use.
Having been there for almost 12 years, CI is stable enough and experiences minimal lags.
It has a very well-illustrated database, which makes it a very user-friendly option.

CakePHP:

CakePHP is open-source in nature and was introduced in 2005. The framework with its expansible architecture allows you to develop attractive yet simple web applications. Apart from this, it allows CRUD that is created, read, update, and then delete, which also makes it an easy-to-learn PHP framework.

Benefits of CakePHP:

Provides additional security to the web apps because of its features like CSRF that is cross-site request forgery protection, XSS that is cross-site scripting, input validation, etc.

Yii:

This is a new programming network introduced in the year 2008. It is the best framework for all types of web apps. Yii also supports new features like lazy loading, and a few more, which makes it ideal for building modern websites or web apps.

Advantages of Yii:

Interoperability with the other PHP frameworks like Zend, etc.
It is light in weight and ensures high speed and performance to the projects built with it
Comes with security features such as SQL injection, and cookie tampering to protect the web apps.

Apart from these 5, there are 5 more than needs a mention like Zend, Phalcon, FuelPHP, Slim, and PHPixie.

Jonathan Paul is an expert PHP developer associated with one of the leading software development companies in Australia, PHPProgrammers. The author has written this article to ensure every developer in this field, both freshers and experienced ones are aware of the most popular frameworks PHP supports.