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Top 10 PHP Frameworks for Web Developers

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. PHP is the world’s most popular scripting language as it is fast and reliable. Almost all of the popular blogs and websites were powered by PHP.

A PHP Framework provides a basic structure for which to build the web application. It will make the development easier and saves a substantial amount of time and effort for the developers as well as speed up the development process.



The list below is 10 of the best PHP Framework for Web Development.

  1. Laravel
  2. Symfony
  3. Laminas Project (Zend Framework)
  4. CodeIgniter
  5. Yii 2.0
  6. CakePHP
  7. Phalcon
  8. FuelPHP
  9. PHPPixie
  10. Slim
The top 5 are Laravel, Symfony, Laminas Project, CodeIgniter and Yii 2.0.

1. Laravel


Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax and follows the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern and based on Symfony. Laravel attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in most web projects.




2. Symfony

Symfony is a set of reusable PHP components and a PHP framework to build web applications, APIs, microservices and web services.




3. Laminas Project (Zend Framework)

The Laminas Project
is an open-source continuation of Zend Framework, a PHP framework and component library targeting enterprise applications.

It encompases the following projects:

  • Laminas Components and MVC
  • Mezzio, a PHP middleware runtime, and various components and extensions to the runtime.
  • Laminas API Tools, an API builder and engine, built on top of the Laminas MVC runtime.




4. CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for developers who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.




5. Yii
Yii is a high performance, component-based PHP framework for rapidly developing modern Web applications. The name Yii means “simple and evolutionary” in Chinese. It can also be thought of as an acronym for Yes It Is!