Top PHP Framework 2018

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1 ) Laravel ( The PHP Framework For Web Artisans )

website : — https://laravel.com/

Advantages : –

Expressive , beautiful syntax.

Value elegance, simplicity, and readability? You’ll fit right in. Laravel is designed for people just like you. If you need help getting started, check out Laracasts and our great documentation.

Tailored for your team.

Whether you’re a solo developer or a 20 person team, Laravel is a breath of fresh air. Keep everyone in sync using Laravel’s database agnostic migrations and schema builder.

Modern toolkit. Pinch of magic.

An amazing ORM, painless routing, powerful queue library, and simple authentication give you the tools you need for modern, maintainable PHP. We sweat the small stuff to help you deliver amazing applications.

2 ) Symfony ( Symfony is a set of reusable PHP components )

website : — https://symfony.com/

Advantages : –

Faster development.

You can save two or three days of work when reusing generic components that go out-of-box. The saved time can be dedicated to developing of specific features.

Easier maintainability.

Using a framework imposes a certain structure and common rules to follow. Thus, it won’t be a problem for a new developer or team to join the ongoing project.

Fewer issues.

The framework code is clear and proven which reduces the number of mistakes. Better security. The framework components are supported with timely upgrades and enhancement of security.

High flexibility

Symfony is one of the most feature-rich PHP frameworks. The two most outstanding technological benefits of Symfony that make it so awesome are Bundles and Components.

3 ) CodeIgniter ( CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint)

website : — https://www.codeigniter.com/

Advantages : –

Clear documentation

The CodeIgniter User Guide comes with the download. It contains an introduction, tutorial, a number of “how to” guides, and then reference documentation for the components that make up the framework.

Simple solutions over complexity

CodeIgniter encourages MVC, but does not force it on you.

Framework with a small footprint

CodeIgniter 3 has a 2MB download, including the user guide.

Exceptional performance

CodeIgniter consistently outperforms most of its competitors.

Strong Security

We take security seriously, with built-in protection against CSRF and XSS attacks.

Nearly zero configuration

Much of the CodeIgniter configuration is done by convention, for instance putting models in a “models” folder. There are still a number of configuration options available, through scripts in the “config” folder.

4) Yii 2 ( Yii is a fast, secure, and efficient PHP framework. )

website : — https://www.yiiframework.com/

Advantages : –

Fast

Yii gives you the maximum functionality by adding the least possible overhead

Secure

Sane defaults and built-in tools helps you write solid and secure code

Efficient

Write more code in less time with simple, yet powerful APIs and code generation

5 ) Phalcon ( A full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C-extension )

website : — https://phalconphp.com/en/

Advantages : –

Low overhead

Low memory consumption and CPU compared to traditional frameworks

PHP C-extension (Phalcon)

Zephir/C extensions are loaded together with PHP one time on the web server’s daemon start process Classes and functions provided by the extension are ready to use for any application The code is compiled and isn’t interpreted because it’s already compiled to a specific platform and processor

Thanks to its low-level architecture and optimizations Phalcon provides the lowest overhead for MVC-based applications

MVC & HMVC

Modules, components, models, views and controllers

Build single and multi-module applications with ease and pleasure. Using the file structure, scheme and patterns you already know.

Dependency Injection

Dependency Injection and Location of services and it’s itself a container for them. Phalcon is built upon a powerful yet easy to understand and use pattern called Dependency Injection. Initialize or define services once — and use them virtually anywhere throughout the application.

Rest

In this case, you can use either a micro or full stack application to meet your goal. In addition, a powerful set of HTTP helpers. Writing REST servers and applications has never been easier. No boilerplate. Simple services will fit in one file.

Autoloader

Provides the autoloading mechanism of PHP classes following PSR-4. Register namespaces, prefixes, directories or classes. Take advantage of the autoloader events and maintain full control over what files are loaded and from where.

Router

Phalcon\Mvc\Router provides advanced routing capabilities. Routing as it supposed to be. Nothing more. Nothing less.

// Create the router
$router = new \Phalcon\Mvc\Router();

// Define a route $router->add( ‘/admin/users/my-profile’, [ ‘controller’ => ‘users’, ‘action’ => ‘profile’, ]

);

6 ) CakePHP ( Faster. Stronger. Tastier. Prototype faster, Validate faster, Grow consistently. )

website : — https://cakephp.org/

Advantages : –

Build Quickly

Use code generation and scaffolding features to rapidly build prototypes.

Clean MVC Conventions

Instead of having to plan where things go, CakePHP comes with a set of conventions to guide you in developing your application

Secure

CakePHP comes with built-in tools for input validation, CSRF protection, Form tampering protection, SQL injection prevention, and XSS prevention. CakePHP codebase itself has been audited through the Mozilla Secure Open Source program.

Batteries Included

The things you need are built-in. Translations, database access, caching, validation, authentication, and much more are all built into one of the original PHP MVC frameworks.

No Configuration

No complicated XML or YAML files. Just setup your database and you’re ready to bake.

7 ) Zend Framework . ( Professional PHP packages ready for PHP 7 Focused on Simplicity, Reusability, and Performance )

website : — https://framework.zend.com/

Advantages : —

Expressive

Build PHP microservices and web applications in minutes! Fully compliant with PSR-15 and PSR-7 standards.

Performance

Engineered with performance tuning in mind. Zend Framework 3 runs up to 4x faster than version 2 releases!

Extensible

Open architecture based on Middleware or MVC, following PHP-FIG standards.

Secure

Built with security best practices. Store passwords using bcrypt, encrypt with AES-256, and more.

Enterprise Ready

A proven history of success running business critical and high-usage applications. Ready for PHP 7.

8 ) Slim ( a micro framework for PHP )

website : — https://www.slimframework.com/

Advantages : –

Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs.

HTTP Router

Slim provides a fast and powerful router that maps route callbacks to specific HTTP request methods and URIs. It supports parameters and pattern matching.

PSR-7 Support

Slim supports any PSR-7 HTTP message implementation so you may inspect and manipulate HTTP message method, status, URI, headers, cookies, and body.

Dependency Injection

Slim supports dependency injection so you have complete control of your external tools. Use any Container-Interop container.

Middleware

Build your application with concentric middleware to tweak the HTTP request and response objects around your Slim app.

9 ) FuelPHP . ( Born from the best ideas of other frameworks, with a fresh start! )

website : — https://fuelphp.com/

Advantages : –

FuelPHP is a MVC (Model-View-Controller)

framework that was designed from the ground up to have full support for HMVC as part of its architecture. But we didn’t stop there, we also added ViewModels (also known as presentation models) into the mix which give you the option to add a powerful layer between the Controller and the View.

FuelPHP also supports a more router based approach where you might route directly to a closure which deals with the input uri, making the closure the controller and giving it control of further execution.

An (H)MVC framework

FuelPHP is a MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework that was designed from the ground up to have full support for HMVC as part of its architecture. But we didn’t stop there, we also added ViewModels (also known as presentation models) into the mix which give you the option to add a powerfull layer between the Controller and the View. FuelPHP also supports a more router based approach where you might route directly to a closure which deals with the input uri, making the closure the controller and giving it control of further execution.

Full HMVC implementation

ViewModels to get the View-specific logic out of your Views and Controllers Route directly to closures
Modular and extendable to a fault . Almost every class in FuelPHP’s core package can be extended without you having to change a single line of code where it’s used (read more on extending the core). You can package more functionality into packages that extend or replace the FuelPHP core and you can keep your application modular by dividing it up into application modules. Packages and modules are also a great way to enable re-use of your code.

Extend or replace Core classes without rewriting a single line of code. Package additional functionality into Packages. Create modular application by dividing it up into Application Modules.

Oil: the power of the command line
FuelPHP leverages the power of the command line through a utility called “oil”. The utility is designed to help speed up development, increase efficiency and assist testing and debugging while being entirely optional if you are not a fan of the terminal.

Code generation, Scaffolding and Admin generation.

Run Database Migrations.

Interactive Debugging.

Tasks — useful for cron type activities like importing data and other batch or background operations.

Security

Security concerns have been front and center from the beginning. Out-of-the-box FuelPHP’s Views will encode all your output to make it secure and prevent XSS attacks. If you need to allow HTML through you can mark it as safe or have it cleaned by the default included HTMLawed. FuelPHP also supports CSRF prevention with tokens, input filtering and the Query Builder will assist you in preventing any SQL injection attacks. Several security features inside the framework use functionality offered by PHPSecLib. More about Security in FuelPHP can be read in the documentation.

Input filtering , URI filtering , XSS filtering , Output encoding , CSRF token protection , SQL injection prevention
And A secure Auth framework

Base classes for Controllers and Models

FuelPHP includes some base classes to give you a flying start.

Controller_Template — Add simple page templating functionality to your controllers. Controller_Rest — An easy way to create a RESTful API. Controller_Hybrid — Combine the two features into a single controller.

Model_Crud — Provides all methods for CRUD operations on a single table.

Powerful yet lightweight ORM included

The FuelPHP ORM was designed to strike a balance between powerful features while remaining lightweight. It is not supposed to be a Doctrine/Propel replacement, it’s a more lightweight solution that can take on many of its competitors head-on. Offering a OO approach to working with your database, do CRUD operations and manage relations between rows.

Authentication framework

As it is pretty much impossible to create an Auth library that will satisfy everyone FuelPHP comes with an Auth framework that sets a default interface drivers have to adhere to. This will allow developers to develop and share their own implementations that others can use as drop-in replacements without having to change the most common usages.

Use any template parser for your Views

A Parser package is shipped with FuelPHP that allows for using any template parser for parsing your views instead of basic PHP. There are drivers included for the following libraries:

Mustache , Markdown , Smarty , Twig , Haml , Jade , Dwoo , Phptal

10 ) PHPixie ( THE MODERN COMPONENT BASED PHP FRAMEWORK )

website : — https://phpixie.com/

Advantages : –

100% TEST COVERAGE

Browse the entire code coverage report generated by PHPUnit .

AST PERFORMANCE

Designed for speed since first release. Proven by independent benchmarks .

POWERFUL COMPONENTS

Built using components that can be used without the framework .

SOLID ARCHITECTURE

Linear execution flow, no static code, and low coupling.

BUNDLE SYSTEM

Reuse and share your code via Composer as self contained bundles .

MONGODB SUPPPORT

Database components support working with MongoDB out of the box .

HARDENED SECURITY

Using cryptographically secure hashesh, random tokens and secure cookie handing .

FIRST-HAND SUPPORT

Need help? Just drop a line in the chat and get help from the creator in no time .

BEST PRACTICES

Designed from scratch according to SOLID principles and industry standards .

LINEAR CODE FLOW

Never find yourself in an event hell ever again as event use is avoided .

11 ) Fat Free . ( A powerful yet easy-to-use PHP micro-framework designed to help you build dynamic and robust web applications — fast! )

website : — https://fatfreeframework.com/3.6/home

Advantages : –

full-featured toolkit

Take advantage of the built-in features. Develop apps that really rock. F3 gives you solid foundation, a mature code base, and a no-nonsense approach to writing Web applications.

super lightweight code base with just ~65kb and easy to learn, use and extend

Speed up your development process. F3 is lightweight, easy-to-use, and fast. Most of all, it doesn’t get in your way. It has a gentle learning curve so you save money on training expenses.

other feature

Fast and clean template engine , Unit testing toolkit , Database-managed sessions , Markdown-to-HTML converter , Atom/RSS feed reader , Image processor , Geodata handler On-the-fly Javascript/CSS compressor , OpenID (consumer) , Custom logger , Basket/Shopping cart Pingback server/consumer , Unicode-aware string functions , SMTP over SSL/TLS

Tools for communicating with other servers , Data Validation and more Plugins from the F3-Community

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Originally published at makecodeeasy.com on September 9, 2018.

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