I did finish reading on Phalcon, but what I should have done is finishing on pros & cons of Laravel. This blog post has nothing to do with comparing frameworks based on facts and measurable factors. It’s an opinion-based list of PHP frameworks, poor opinion in addition.
Starting with Laravel, listing ORM as a PRO, then saying it does queries on your database? Man, learn to use your tools instead of blaming them.
“MVC architecture (and PHP7)” — like MVC would be only relevant to Laravel, I’m not even commenting on PHP7, all maintained frameworks work on PHP7, I use Symfony 2.x on PHP 7.1.
Going further… Phalcon, apart from PHQL, things you listed are rather standard for frameworks (templating engine of some sort, form components, i18n support). Also, since the title says 2017, why would you list HHVM (lack of support) in cons? Please, gather more information, Symfony is dropping HHVM support, maintainers of some most popular libraries do the same (Doctrine, Guzzle), because it becomes less and less compatible with PHP.
Oh and I did take a quick look at Symfony. PROs listed there seems like you really had nothing else to put on there — “High performance, due to byte code caching”? How is that Symfony’s unique feature? I am pretty sure opcode cache is PHP feature, not Symfony.
Forgive me if it all seems too harsh, but when I read such title, I expect the article to be “BEST” article on best php frameworks in 2017. Instead I get a list of 12 (just counted!) frameworks, with short, vague descriptions, and pros&cons that list poor arguments.