The Most Popular PHP Frameworks to Use in 2021

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Laravel

Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine. No more worrying about messing up your operating system!

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Symfony

The best way to interact with your databases is via the Doctrine ORM. Symfony uses data mappers to map objects to the database. This keeps your object model and the database schema separate, meaning that if you change a database column you don’t need to make many changes in your codebase.

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3

CodeIgniter

Laravel is billed as “The PHP Framework for Web Artisans.” It was developed by Taylor Otwell, who wanted a framework with elements that CodeIgniter didn’t have, such as user authentication.

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Zend Framework

The Zend Framework is a long-established PHP framework that is now transitioning to the Laminas Project. Migration to Laminas is strongly recommended, as Zend is no longer updated.

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Laminas Project

The Zend Framework is a long-established PHP framework that is now transitioning to the Laminas Project. Migration to Laminas is strongly recommended, as Zend is no longer updated.

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Yii Framework

Familiarity with the command line is also key to using the Composer PHP package manager. The Yii Framework is one of several which uses Composer to install and manage dependencies, packages which are required for an application to run.

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CakePHP

For example, the CakePHP framework has the Bake command-line tool which can quickly create any skeleton code that you need in your application.

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8

Slim Framework

Slim framework is quick and easy to install. Slim has a First Application tutorial for version 3 of the framework. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been updated to Slim version 4, the current version.

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Phalcon

As Phalcon is loosely coupled, you can create your own directory structure. Phalcon’s code does not live in the project directory, making the code lightweight.

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FuelPHP

You can choose the file and folder structure you want for your project as there are few constraints. FuelPHP takes security seriously, with the following features:

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Fat-Free

The documentation is clear and easy to follow, with plenty of examples. Fat-Free Framework offers a choice of template engine: you can use PHP, F3’s own template engine, or others such as Smarty or Twig.

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