Review of 20 Best PHP Frameworks in 2014

PHP is a very powerful and popular programming language for Web developers. Many of the top websites in the world are developed based on PHP. In this article, we will review the next 20 best PHP frameworks in 2014.

Every developer knows that having a strong 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. The following 20 PHP frameworks can be used selectively, and 1 will definitely help you.

1. Laravel

Laravel is a free and open source PHP application framework, which is designed to develop WEB applications based on MVC. Personally, Laravel is the best PHP framework in 2014, which can help you create some cool WEB applications, and can easily use privilege verification, URL routing, Session and caching functions.

Official website: http://laravel.com/

2. Phalcon

Phalcon is the fastest PHP framework. Its bottom layer is implemented with C, but the upper layer provides some PHP extensions. As an PHP framework, Phalcon is famous for its high performance and low consumption. Although it is implemented in C, we don't need to use C, you can use it as long as you know PHP.

Official website: http://phalconphp.com/en/

3. Symfony

Symfony is an PHP framework for the Web project that helps you accelerate the creation and maintenance of PHP applications. Symfony can help you save a lot of repetitive coding work and shift your focus to design and control.

Symfony is a reusable PHP component, which is an open source software based on MIT protocol. Many CMS systems and forum programs are developed based on Symfony, such as Drupal and phpBB.

Official website: http://symfony.com/

4. Yii

Yii is a fast, secure and professional PHP framework, and it is also a high-performance PHP framework for developing WEB 2.0 applications. Yii is very powerful, with the following built-in functions: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N, permission verification, caching, security control, testing, data access objects, etc.

Official website: http://www.yiiframework.com/

5. CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is a very agile open source PHP framework. If you want to develop a simple and elegant toolkit with PHP, CodeIgniter is very suitable.

Official website: https://ellislab.com/codeigniter

6. CakePHP

CakePHP is an old PHP framework. Because of its excellence, it was also included in the best PHP framework in 2014. Now the stable version is V 3.0. CakePHP can help you create PHP applications simply and quickly, and you can achieve powerful functions with very little code.

Official website: http://cakephp.org/

7. Aura

If you like to create applications with simple code, you can choose to use Aura. Aura also has a large number of users. It is used in a similar way to CakePHP. The main goal of Aura is to provide PHP developers with a framework of high-quality, testable and standardized components.

Official website: http://auraphp.com/

8. Zend Framework

I have used Zend 1 and Zend 2 in large WEB projects in previous years, and as the top PHP framework, Zend is really easy to use and well documented. We can use Zend to create some very scalable PHP applications.

Official website: http://framework.zend.com/

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 interface, code analysis, encryption and authentication, and so on.

Official website: http://kohanaframework.org/

10. Slim framework

Slim is a lightweight PHP framework. As a microframework, Slim allows you to simply create powerful applications and API interfaces. Slim has powerful routing features, custom view templates, flash messages, AES-256 encrypted secure cookies, HTTP caching, customizable logging, exception handling, and debugging and simple configuration.

Official website: http://www.slimframework.com/

11. Fuel PHP

Fuel PHP is a simple and extensible PHP framework. Based on the design concept of other frameworks, Fuel is already V 2.0 version, and beta version is known at present.

Fuel fully supports HMVC, which is part of the Fuel architecture. In addition, the powerful routing function of Fuel allows you to handle the correspondence between controllers and views flexibly.

Official website: http://fuelphp.com/

12. Flight

Flight is a miniature PHP framework with strong extensibility. Flight allows you to quickly create REST-style web applications. It needs the support of PHP version 5.3 or above. Of course, Flight is also open source based on MIT protocol.

Official website: http://flightphp.com/

13. Medoo

I like this miniature framework very much. Medoo is the lightest PHP framework, which can be used to accelerate our application development. It has only one file of 13KB, which is very simple to learn and use, and Medoo is also open source.

Official website: http://medoo.in/

14. PHPixie

PHPixie is a lightweight PHP MVC framework, which is very small and well documented, so we only need to configure it as much as possible.

Official website: http://phpixie.com/

15. Pop PHP

Pop is a robust and easy-to-learn PHP framework, and provides many detailed API interfaces and documentation, supporting PHP 5.3 and above. Today, the Pop PHP is still lightweight, and although many new features are gradually added to the Pop, it is still very convenient to use.

Official website: http://www.popphp.org/

16. Simple MVC Framework

The installation of Simple MVC Framework is simple, and the code structure is very simple and easy to learn. We only need to set the website path to install it successfully. Simple, MVC, Framework are also discussed in Twitter and Facebook groups, which are lightweight and smaller than 1M.

Official website: http://simplemvcframework.com/

17. TYPO3 Flow

TYPO3 is managed by TYPO3, one of the largest PHP communities, and is an open source PHP framework.

Official website: http://flow.typo3.org/home

18. Nette

Very popular PHP development tool, its design concept is as simple and safe as possible, Nette has considered your website security for you, including XSS attack, Session hijacking, Session tampering and other security issues.

Official website: http://nette.org/en/

19. Agavi

Agavi is an PHP MVC framework based on PHP 5, which helps developers write concise code and is very extensible.

Official website: http://www.agavi.org/

20. Silex

Silex is also a miniature PHP framework based on PHP 5.3 and above. API of Silex is very interesting to use, because API is simple enough to make it a great third-party extension application by using Pimple services.

Official website: http://silex.sensiolabs.org/

This article summarizes the data for reference only, hoping to be helpful to everyone's PHP programming.