Brief analysis of the comparison of ten PHP development frameworks

The PHP development framework has recently become a hot topic in the PHP community, with new frameworks being introduced almost daily. With more than 410 different development frameworks out there, it's hard to know which one is right for you, especially if they offer different features.

An overview of
Below you can see an overview of the 10 development frameworks, listing the capabilities each offers.
#1: indicates whether the framework has model-view-controller built in.
#2: Indicates whether the framework supports multiple databases without modification.
#3: Indicates whether the framework supports an object record mapper, which is usually a package for ActiveRecord.
#4: Indicates whether the framework contains other database objects, such as TableGateWay.
#5: Indicates whether the framework has a built-in template engine.
#6: Indicates whether the framework caches objects or other caching mechanisms.
#7: Indicates whether the framework has a built-in validation or filtering component.
#8: Indicates whether the framework has built-in Ajax support.
#9: Indicates whether the framework has a built-in user authentication module.
#10: Indicates whether the framework contains other modules, such as the RSS feed parser, PDF module, or other utility modules.

Zend Framework
Although Zend Framework does not appear to benefit from the comparison table, Zend Framework does include 1 module for processing PDF documents, RSS sources, online services (Amazon, Flickr, Yahoo) and more. Zend Framework also includes several different database objects, making it easy to query the database without having to write the SQL script.

Currently, Zend Framework does not fully support ORM, but developers are still debating whether to add an ORM layer. Perhaps in the future, you can write your own ORM package, contribute to the community, and have the opportunity to integrate it into future versions of the framework.

Zend Framework looks promising, and it also fixes some common PHP problems. Perhaps the stable version will perform better in the comparison table!

CakePHP
CakePHP is an advanced MVC framework with a few modules. It can handle most database transactions and supports Ajax data validation. Meanwhile, its user authentication module (Accsee List) is also very unique, which can assign corresponding access rights to different parts of the website for different users.

Although CakePHP's website looks dizzying, the framework itself is fairly complete and usable. It's a bit of a surprise that we haven't seen a stable version yet, since it's been in development for several months, but I guess beta might be a good way to develop a product

Symfony Project
As can be seen from the comparison table, Symfony is a very extensible development framework. It is even fully embedded in an ORM called Propel. Propel is also an open source project and is probably the best ORM solution on PHP so far. Symfony also integrates Creole for the database abstraction layer and Mojavi for the MVC model layer. Because it merely reuses the source code of these projects, rather than rewriting it, the framework is extremely extensible, as is evident in the table.

Symfony has two flaws that prevent it from supporting PHP4, as a result of the need to support many of the new features in PHP5, and 2 is relatively complex. Most tasks, such as pagination, are more complicated in Symfony than in other frameworks, which are by no means known for their simplicity.

Seagull Framework
Seagull framework looks pretty good and comes with a lot of features. Support for PHP4 has also been beneficial to its promotion, as I myself still use PHP4, and most space hosts do not fully support PHP5.

Unfortunately, Seagull doesn't offer support for Ajax, which is a bit of a shame, but it's easy to find a tutorial from Google that adds its own support, and this should be added to the framework in the future.

WACT - Web Application Toolkit
WACT has a lot of potential. It has all the basics of the framework, like MVC, database objects, and a template engine, but that's about it. It doesn't have any external modules, and it also lacks a few built-in features, such as Ajax, caching, validation modules, and so on.

Still, WACT has the best template engine and can even help you create your own template tags to extend functionality.

Prado
Prado is unique in that it offers a number of cool features. It has no built-in support for MVC (as far as I can see), but it does have a variety of components that handle most PHP tasks, and even better, it implements event-driven scripting. For example, set the onClick event on an HTML button to link to an PHP function. This is close to ES118en.NET and Prado does contain more ES121en.NET components like GridView and Repeater Control.

On the basis of the comparison table alone, Prado appears to be weaker than other frameworks, but it is not. Because Prado is so unique, it doesn't score very high, but it is very powerful in practice.

PHP on Trax
This framework looks like an interface to Ruby and Rails on PHP, which was actually called PHP on Rails. Unfortunately, its documentation is so scarce that it's hard to tell exactly what the framework provides, but it does mention ActiveRecord, so it might provide ActiveRecord, just like RoR. And it has Ajax support built in, as you can see from two demo videos on its website.

PHP on Trax basically meets the user's requirements for the framework, but it still lacks arms and legs, such as authentication modules and caching modules. It also doesn't have any plug-in modules, so for now, it's pretty rudimentary.

ZooP Framework
ZooP Framework is pretty much everything, as you can see from the first chart, except for the ORM layer. What's even more surprising is that it supports PHP4, which is quite a feat for such a comprehensive feature.

ZooP also provides built-in GUI control, which makes creating forms incredibly fast. It supports most common form elements, and the advantage of using GUI control in regular HTML is that you can tie the logic of validation into GUI control.

eZ Components
ez Components is more of a set of components than a framework, which is probably why it has no built-in support for MVC.

It includes most common components, such as database components and cache components, but there is still something missing. For example, there are no ActiveRecord components and no validation components. On the other hand, it provides 1 plug-in component, such as e-ES176en component, but not much, and other frameworks (like Zend Framework) provide more.

CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter is a relatively new framework, written by the ExpressionEngine team, and looks promising. Unfortunately, it can't handle multiple databases yet, although this feature is still under development.

It comes from Ruby on Rails, so it provides many of the same features, such as scaffolding(code generation). The documentation is excellent and there are even video tutorials to help you get started quickly.

And the winner is...
I regret to announce here that no one won. Each framework offers different features, so no one is perfect. As usual, in the end this will depend on personal preference and choice. I highly recommend that you carefully read the documentation of each framework before making a decision. The rest is up to you.

Personally, I really like Zend Framework, but when I looked closely at each framework, I found a lot of interesting features, such as the Prado event or ORM package.

When you really can't decide which framework to choose, you can still choose to do what most people do: do it yourself. It's time consuming, but it's fun.

As stated at the beginning, the 1 part framework has been considerably updated, and I've been leaning toward symfony recently. Its extensive documentation makes it easy to get started, but its complexity makes it a bit of a hassle to develop small projects, even personal mini-projects like mine.