“The
21st century has received a magical touch from the web industry. Every
sector and every enterprise are now taking the assistance from web
applications to enhance their business possibilities and productivity.
As a result, many web domain specific technologies were born in this era
starting from JSP, ASP, PHP, ROR and Python, etc. To make the web
development process quicker and accurate in order to meet the
expectations and high demands of the industry, many web frameworks have
been developed for different web domain specific languages. These
frameworks are equipped with highly optimized and well-organized
libraries, modules, and packages to help the web developers in designing
enterprise standard high performance web solutions. Most of the 21st
century frameworks follow MVC architecture, i.e. Model-View-Controller
scheme. With MVC, the View component (user interface) remains isolated
from the core logic section of the application making the development
process much professional and well-organized than before. Fortunately,
MVC architecture received overnight popularity from the industry and has
been well accepted by both the developers and the tech experts. As a
result, the industry is now flooded with many MVC web frameworks. Among
those, PHP web frameworks have been a boon for the industry. This is
mainly because; they are usually open source and hence enable web
developers to create low cost web applications on the fly. Let’s check
‘what are the top PHP MVC web frameworks of the industry’ and then we
will try to find out which one is the best?”
CakePHP- the power of OOP and ORM: It
has been a continuous concern for PHP developers to implement Object
Oriented approach to their application; now it is utterly possible with
CakePHP. Besides other features that are common with many web
frameworks, CakePHP comes with inbuilt support for ORM i.e. Object Relational Mapper. Here, the PHP developer is given adequate room to play around the database. In fact, the database tables are transformed into Objects; and different operations over the table are performed by different functions. This is very easy to digest for any web developer. Moreover, it is well equipped with CRUD scaffolding i.e. database operations like Create, Read, Update and Delete
are performed in such a hassle free manner that the PHP developers need
not think much about the background database queries for any
modification of the database. Everything is done in a smoother manner by
the framework without giving any pain to the developer. As a result,
the web developer can focus more over the core logic and innovative
ideas instead of running behind the database stuffs. As the database is
under the control of CakePHP, any change in the application will
automate the overall changes of the application without having to modify
the code at every place. This establishes the power of the Object
Oriented approach of CakePHP.
Zend for high performance web app development:
Zend is one of the oldest frameworks of PHP and still it has remained
as the first choice for many PHP developers. Zend was one of the first
PHP 5 compliant frameworks for web developers, enabling them to develop contemporary web applications at a faster rate. Now, the latest Zend framework has made it PHP 7 compliant and that means more power and more efficiency than before. It has inbuilt debugging tools, i.e. xDebug and ZendDebugger to debug your source code. It makes the code not only error proof but also well maintainable. It has Zend server
and when it combines with the core framework, the performance becomes
outstanding, the efficiency touches every limit and the user experience
improves a lot. Capability to integrate Emulators has made it future ready and to design modern web apps for different smart operating systems like Android, iOS or Windows and of course in a responsive
manner. It enables the developer to have some inbuilt testing methods
to be carried out over the application in a magical manner like unit
testing with PHPUnit and Integrated PHPDocumentor 2.
Laravel for large scale development:
It is yet another renowned PHP MVC framework having a tremendous market
share gained in a very less span of time! It is best suited for large
scale web solutions. Though it got launched in 2011 but by 2015, it
surged out as the best PHP framework of the industry. Being a MVC
framework, it enables the web developers in creating awesome web apps in
a flawless manner. It is also known as FullStack because of its unmatched quality of resource handling. It has many unique features like HTML generation, optimized web serving, user authentication, etc. The list does not end! Features like automatic pagination, blade template engine, eloquent ORM, expressive syntax and reverse routing
are there to boost the confidence of any PHP web developer. Modularity,
flexibility and highly customizable offerings of this framework have
made it possible to rule the web industry with dignity.
Symfony 2- better for speed carving websites: Symfony 2 is yet another PHP MVC framework
that was gifted to the PHP developer in 2005. When it was introduced to
the industry it had a clear vision to provide utmost benefit to the PHP
developers in creating highly optimized and scalable web applications.
Over time, it got reinvented and refined to make the framework even
more useful than before. Now in 2015 it has come up as the most popular
PHP framework for high speed
web application development. It has a unique approach to handle
multiple resources at once without compromising on the efficiency of the
application. Like any other MVC framework, it also enables the PHP
developer to keep logic section of the application isolated from the
View section. But here, the database is handled in an optimized manner
so that the end user will get the best user experience for any type of
interactive communication between the user and the server. It is highly
popular in creating event driven web applications that need excess power and speed for the process and Symfony 2 framework provides the same in a tranquil manner.
Yii - small yet powerful:
Yii is considered as one of the smallest PHP frameworks of the
industry; but it enables the web developer in creating attractive and
beautiful web applications in a short span of time. It has many
templates that help in creating quick web solutions without compromising
on the look and feel and user experience of the application. Though, it
is micro in size, but it is highly efficient and useful in crafting
quick web applications preferably for small scale web solutions.
From
above discussion, we find that every framework has a specific use and
if they can be efficiently used by any PHP developer, the end product
will be simply outstanding! So, all are best in their fields and
specific circumstances and it would be biased to declare any one as the
best. After all, it depends upon the project requirements and personal
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