PHP Development Frameworks

PHP Development Frameworks

Symfony
Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP5.It provides an architecture, components and tools for developers to build complex web applications faster. Choosing symfony allows you to release your applications earlier, host and scale them without problem, and maintain them over time with no surprise.

Symfony is based on experience. It does not reinvent the wheel: it uses most of the best practices of web development and integrates some great third-party libraries.

http://www.symfony-project.org/

CakePHP
akePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.

http://www.cakephp.org/

Seagull
Seagull is a mature OOP framework for building web, command line and GUI applications. Licensed under BSD, the project allows PHP developers to easily integrate and manage code resources, and build complex applications quickly.

Many popular PHP applications are already seamlessly integrated within the project, as are various templating engines, testing tools and managed library code. If you're a beginner, the framework provides a number of sample applications that can be customised and extended to suit your needs. If you're an intermediate or advanced developer, take advantage of Seagull's best practices , standards and modular codebase to build your applications in record time.

http://seagullproject.org/

Zoop Framework
Zoop is an object oriented PHP framework. Zoop is modeled after the MVC design pattern. It is a high performance, secure, and scalable framework for PHP. It is designed to be very fast and efficient and very nice for the programmer to work with. Zoop has been built in a modular way so it is both easily extensible, and light. It has been in development and production use since 2001 and is quite mature.

http://zoopframework.com