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Compare the most popular PHP Frameworks of 2015 according to the survey of Sitepoint: sitepoint.com/...
For the expanded version look at: php-frameworks-comparison
Compare the most popular PHP Frameworks of 2015 according to the survey of Sitepoint: sitepoint.com/...
For the expanded version look at: php-frameworks-comparison
Link | CakePHP | CodeIgniter | FuelPHP | Kohana | Laravel | MkFramework | Mouf | Nette | Openbiz Cubi | phalcon | PHPixie | PPI Framework | Silex framework | Slim framework | Solar | Symfony | Yii | Zend Framework 2 | Zikula |
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| Website | cakephp.org | codeigniter.com | fuelphp.com | kohanaframework.org | laravel.com | mkframework.com | mouf-php.com | nette.org | phalcon.io | phpixie.com | www.ppi.io | symfony.com | slimframework.com | solarphp.com | symfony.com | yiiframework.com | zend.com | ziku.la | |
| Latest version | 5.2.3 | 4.6.1 | 1.8.2 | 3.3.6 | 12.0.7 | 1.6.0 | 2.0 | 2.1.12 | 3.0.9 | 4.0.6 | 2.*@dev | 1.0 | 1.2.3 | 4.5.0 | 1.1.2 | 7.2.6 | 2.0.52 | 2.2.0 | 3.0.3 |
| Release date | Apr. 24th 2025 | May 2nd 2025 | Jun. 27th 2019 | Jul. 25th 2016 | Apr. 15th 2025 | Apr. 8th 2020 | Jan. 7th 2015 | Dec. 3rd 2015 | Mar. 6th 2013 | May 16th 2020 | Mar. 18th 2014 | Jan. 1st 2012 | Jun. 1st 2018 | Apr. 14th 2020 | Nov. 9th 2010 | May 2nd 2025 | Feb. 13th 2025 | May 15th 2013 | Sep. 4th 2020 |
| Requirements | >= PHP 8.1 | >= PHP 8.4 | >= PHP 5.4 | >= PHP 5 | PHP >= 8.2, OpenSSL PHP Extension, PDO PHP Extension, Mbstring PHP Extension, Tokenizer PHP Extension, XML PHP Extension, | PHP >= 5.2 | >= PHP 5.3.2 | >=PHP5 | >=PHP 5.3.0 | >= 5.3.0 | >=PHP 5.3.0 | >=PHP 5.3.0 | >= PHP 5.2 | >= PHP 8.2 | >= PHP 7.3 | >= PHP 5.3 | >= PHP 5.3 | ||
| License | MIT | BSD-style | MIT | BSD | MIT | LGPLV3 | MIT | BSD | New BSD License | BSD | MIT | MIT | BSD | MIT | BSD | BSD | GPL | ||
| Features | |||||||||||||||||||
| Internationalization I18N / L10n | gettext, PHP array | language class | PHP array | PHP array, gettext via extension | plugin_i18n | FINE | Zend I18N has UI interface | gettext, PHP array | language class | XML (XLIFF) CSV PHP | gettext database PHP array | gettext | |||||||
| Code generation | CLI | CLI | CLI | Mkbuilder: générateur Web | Discouraged, use advanced configuration via dependency injection instead | has built in Openbiz Appbuilder | CLI | Yii CLI, Gii (Web based) | Module Studio | ||||||||||
| ORM | Custom | ActiveRecord | Custom | Custom | ELOQUENT ORM (active record) | Custom possibilité facilement d'utiliser un autre (doctrine par exemple) | TDBM or Doctrine | Supported Metadata Level ORM | PHPixie ORM | Doctrine Propel2 | Doctrine 2, Propel (active record) | Database Access Objects (DAO), Active Record (AR) | Doctrine | ||||||
| Cache storage | Memcache, APC File, APC, Memcache, Redis | File, apc, memcached, xcache | File, Redis, Memcache, APC | APC, File, Memcached, Memcached-tags, SQLite, Wincache | File System, Database, Memcached, APC, Redis, Xcache, WinCache, Memory (Arrays) | cache html de page complète et/ou de "zones"/"modules" du site | APC, File, Memcache, Memory, or any Doctrine Cache implementation | Based on Zend_Cache | APC Redis File Memcached XCache | APC, Memcache, XCache | HTTP, APC, eAccelerator, XCache | APC, Database, eAccelerator, File, Memcache, WinCache, XCache, ZendPlatform | |||||||
| Services | Third party | XML-RPC | WebServices | All ZF components | SOAP / WebServices | ||||||||||||||
| Dependency injection container | Yes With autowiring | Yes With graphical interface, compatible with ContainerInterop | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Template System | Custom but Smarty/Twig can be used | PHP, Simple template parser "{var_name}" | PHP, Dwoo, HAML, JADE, Markdown, Mustache, Smarty, Twig | Blade, PHP, Custom | Built-in Twig support | Latte | Smarty and PHP | PHP | PHP Twig Smarty PHPTal | PHP | PHP, Twig | PHP and Prado's - Several others using Extensions (Razor, Smarty, Twig, etc) | Smarty | ||||||
| MVC | Yes MVP | Yes | Yes | Yes Optional | |||||||||||||||
| Web2.0 | Full jQuery, jQuery UI, Grid System, Native AJAX,RestFul | jQuery HTML5boilerplate | JS-library agnostic | built-in jQuery and Prototype | jQuery Html5bolierplate Twitter Bootstrap Modernizr | built-in jQuery, extendable to any javascript framework | |||||||||||||
| Testing library | PHPUnit | PHPUnit (In development) | PHPUnit | PHPUnit | PHPUnit | PHPUnit | PHPUnit | PHPUnit, Selenium | PHPUnit | ||||||||||
| Code generation | CLI | CLI | CLI | Mkbuilder: générateur Web | Discouraged, use advanced configuration via dependency injection instead | has built in Openbiz Appbuilder | CLI | Yii CLI, Gii (Web based) | Module Studio | ||||||||||
| Menu generator | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| CRUD generation | Yes | Yes Evolugrid and BCE | Yes SensioGeneratorBundle | Yes Gii | |||||||||||||||
| Logging management | Yes | Yes | Yes PSR-3 compliant | Yes PSR-3 compliant | |||||||||||||||
| User interface | Yes Oui : Builder | Yes Extensible | |||||||||||||||||
| Resources | |||||||||||||||||||
| Website | cakephp.org | codeigniter.com | fuelphp.com | kohanaframework.org | laravel.com | mkframework.com | mouf-php.com | nette.org | phalcon.io | phpixie.com | www.ppi.io | symfony.com | slimframework.com | solarphp.com | symfony.com | yiiframework.com | zend.com | ziku.la | |
| Official Certification | Yes exam-based | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| Offcial Training | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| Tutorial | cakephp.org/... | codeigniter.com/... | kohanaframework.org/... | laravel.com/... | developpez.com/... | mouf-php.com/... | google.com/... | phpixie.com/... | www.ppi.io/... | solarphp.com/... | symfony.com/... | yiiframework.com/... | zend.com/... | ||||||
| Github / Bitbucket / Sourceforge | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | google.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | |||||||
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| Notable projects using it | Hot Scripts, Affilorama... | expressionengine.com skyclerk.com | dupot.org supercapote.com | packanalyst.com pathefilms.com wabel.com webikeo.com and many more! | bestbuys.com, joined.com, many many more | Dailymotion: symfony.com/... Drupal 8 eZ Publish 5 | stay.com fictioncity.net humhub.org | ||||||||||||
| X (Twitter) | @cakephp | @CodeIgniter | @fuelphp | @laravelphp | @mkframework | @mouf_php | @symfony | @yiiframework | |||||||||||
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| Active community | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Community | yiiframework.com/... | ||||||||||||||||||
| StackOverflow | 31 332 | 69 123 | 173 276 | <100 | <100 | 68 862 | 14k | 25k | |||||||||||
| Your reviews | |||||||||||||||||||
| Simplicity | 4.3/5 3 ratings | 4.7/5 10 ratings | 5.0/5 1 rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | 5.0/5 6 ratings | 5.0/5 3 ratings | 3.0/5 2 ratings | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 3.8/5 4 ratings | 4.7/5 3 ratings | 3.1/5 7 ratings | no rating |
| Learning Curve | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 4.0/5 1 rating | no rating | 2.0/5 1 rating | no rating |
| Stability | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | no rating |
| Long Term Stability | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 3.0/5 1 rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | no rating |
| Active international social community | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | 5.0/5 2 ratings | no rating | no rating |
| Features | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | no rating | no rating | no rating |
| Flexibility | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 3.0/5 1 rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | no rating | no rating | no rating |
| Large projects | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 3.0/5 1 rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | no rating | 4.0/5 1 rating | no rating |
| Performance | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 2.0/5 1 rating | no rating | 2.0/5 1 rating | no rating |
| Used by large companies | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 2.0/5 1 rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | no rating | 5.0/5 1 rating | no rating |
| Like | Likes 8 | Likes 40 | Likes 4 | Likes 4 | Likes 18 | Likes 1 | Likes 1 | Likes 0 | Likes 1 | Likes 1 | Likes 1 | Likes 3 | Likes 0 | Likes 0 | Likes 0 | Likes 19 | Likes 36 | Likes 4 | Likes 0 |
| Popularity 2015 at Work | 255 | 597 | 25 | 35 | 1,659 | 671 | 169 | 418 | 65 | 79 | 1,067 | 504 | 390 | ||||||
| Popularity 2015 personal | 229 | 482 | 27 | 22 | 2,112 | 703 | 231 | 420 | 142 | 158 | 1,005 | 620 | 346 | ||||||
| Popularity 2014 | 4.51 % | 7.62 % | 1.5 % | 25.85 % | 0 % | 16.73 % | 1.5 % | 1.5 % | 10.62 % | 7.62 % | 4.51 % | ||||||||
| Security | |||||||||||||||||||
| XSRF | Yes | Yes Built-in | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| XSS | Yes | Yes Built-in | Yes | Yes | Yes Via Twig | Yes | |||||||||||||
| NullByte | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| SQL injection | Yes | Yes Built-in | Yes | Yes | Yes Via TDBM or Doctrine | Yes |
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User reviews and comments
Jo999uk on Apr. 14th 2020 7:30:27 AM rated CodeIgniter: Simplicity 5/5 
julien on Aug. 20th 2019 11:19:01 AM rated Mouf: Simplicity 1/5 
wajidkhan on Jul. 10th 2019 8:09:05 PM suggested on Zend Framework 2 to set Name to Zend Framework 
Jani Ali on Feb. 28th 2019 10:14:32 AM rated Zend Framework 2: Simplicity 5/5 
wajidkhan on Feb. 26th 2019 8:36:07 AM rated CodeIgniter: Simplicity 5/5 
wajidkhan on Feb. 26th 2019 8:35:50 AM rated Laravel: Simplicity 5/5 
wajidkhan on Feb. 26th 2019 8:35:29 AM rated CakePHP: Simplicity 4/5 
nbtai91 on Oct. 23rd 2018 8:18:51 AM rated Symfony: Simplicity 5/5 
oliver russell on Sep. 14th 2018 9:39:10 AM 
jugcosta on Mar. 21st 2018 12:40:41 AM rated Yii: Active international social community 5/5 
jugcosta on Mar. 21st 2018 12:39:55 AM rated Yii: Simplicity 5/5 
codiiv on Jan. 29th 2018 12:41:36 PM rated Laravel: Simplicity 5/5 
valcanarias on Jun. 20th 2017 10:05:47 AM 
Alvin Bunk on May 13th 2016 8:27:08 AM suggested on Symfony to set Name to Symfony3 
Antonín Slejška on Mar. 29th 2016 1:47:42 PM rated Yii: Simplicity 5/5 
Antonín Slejška on Mar. 29th 2016 1:47:36 PM rated Yii: Active international social community 5/5 
SuperMario on Mar. 23rd 2016 5:38:13 PM rated Symfony: Simplicity 4/5 
SuperMario on Mar. 23rd 2016 5:37:40 PM rated Zend Framework 2: Simplicity 1/5 
flexjoly on Jan. 7th 2016 7:26:32 PM rated Laravel: Used by large companies 2/5 
flexjoly on Jan. 7th 2016 7:25:13 PM rated Symfony: Used by large companies 5/5
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Most of the frameworks listed here shouldn't be counted as popular because they have low user base and downloads. You cannot compare them with best php frameworks (cloudways.com/... ) like laravel, symfony and yii.
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By far the most versatile, powerful and beautiful Framework. Its ORM, CI, ECHO, ELOQUENT, etc... are some of the feature the modern web dev should have
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Version 3 is now commonly used.