Hi I'm no veteran of these frameworks and have begun using them only recently but here's my 50 cents worth. I have all frameworks installed on local host and I am evaluating them concurrently. This little review is completely subjective for example someone may rate the same frameworks as good/bad for the very reasons I don't. Cake: Documentation: Good Installation: Piece-a-cake Deployment: Easy Tutorials: Very good, (beware, I think, in cake 1.3.0 the documentation is not available as a chm or pdf and there are a few deprecations in the blog tutorial, so use online source) Learning curve: 9/10 [high score being easy, low score being hard] OO Depth: Good Overall: 9/10 Summary: You can get up and running in no time, easy to learn, good MVC framework. Nice folder hierarchy, could be light weight Zend: Documentation: Very good Installation: Easy Deployment: Easy Tutorials: More examples than tutorials per se Learning curve: 7/10 [high score being easy - low score being hard] OO Depth: Very good Overall: 8/10 Summary: You can get up and running in no time, easy to learn, good MVC framework, feels familiar & good AJAX support, good for heavy apps Symfony: Documentation: Excellent Installation: A little more complex, pear install is a good option, get the sandbox for playing around before you dive in Deployment: Easy, but a little more work as command line oriented, but this will be a bonus once the learning curve and commands are learnt, but a lot of configuration files eek Tutorials: Very good, can learn the ropes with a few hours hacking Learning curve: 6/10 [a high score being easy - a low score being hard] OO Depth: Awesome Overall: 9/10 Summary: Very strong MVC, few headaches just read the manuals, but a lot of configuration options, which is a pro and a con, good for heavy apps CodeIgnitor: Documentation: OK, the standard is good but the pdf is two pages a breast, side by side, so annoying when reading and learning Installation: Straight forward Deployment: Easy Tutorials: Fewer examples, but is so intuitive once you get going you probably won't stop Learning curve: 10/10 [high score being not overly exerting, which is what you want ideally , but then again this is a trade off] OO Depth: Not as feature rich as other frameworks, but this is the frameworks virtue Overall: 7/10 Summary: It probably has the simplest implementation of most of the frameworks, but for that reason could be its best asset. Uber light weight Have a look at these links though. http://www.dustinweber.com/main-page/the-best-php-framework-is-symfony-really-it/ http://www.phpframeworks.com/top-10-php-frameworks/ http://www.mustap.com/phpzone_post_73_top-10-php-mvc-frameworks From: Roshan Shahare Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 11:02 AM To: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Which Frame work is best for php development? zend, cakephp , CI ( code ignitor ) are widely used framework... if you r new to framworks...use CI its easy to use... Zend has good library collection... I also heard a lot about "Kohana" recently... --- On Wed, 8/9/10, ADARSH <adarsh_vc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: ADARSH <adarsh_vc@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Which Frame work is best for php development? To: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Wednesday, 8 September, 2010, 2:44 PM Which Frame work is best for php development? and why? please share your thoughts and experience ..... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
