Top 9 PHP Frameworks For Web Development In 2021

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Laravel

Laravel is an open-source web development framework. Of-course, free. It enjoys awe-inspiring support from the PHP developer community. And as a result, Laravel wheels are always in motion. Right from its launch in 2011 to the time of writing this insight, there have been 20 mega releases, Laravel 8 being the latest stable version. The Laravel web framework community provides LTS versions too. Laravel 6.0 LTS is currently under support. Versions before it are no longer maintained.

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CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is a rapid web application development framework with a ridiculously small size. CodeIgniter 4, the latest version of CodeIgniter, is a mere 1.2 MB in size. Like Laravel, it’s open-source and boasts 18k+ stars on GitHub. Just because of how bare-bone it is, we have included it in the second position. Like several other frameworks, CodeIgniter provides a set of libraries and an intuitive interface to accelerate PHP web app development. Currently, this is not tracked by PHPbenchmarks.com but is considered among the best PHP frameworks for website development.

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Symfony

PHP Benchmarks rank Symfony at number 3 in the list of PHP frameworks for web development. With 24.5k+ GitHub stars, Symfony is not just a PHP web development framework but also provides a set of 50 stand-alone reusable PHP components for faster web app development. Using Symfony, you can develop web applications, microservices, and APIs too. With commercial support from SensioLabs, Symfony stands ahead of many on the list.

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Laminas Project

Laminas Project is a continuation of one of the most popular PHP web development frameworks, i.e., the Zend PHP framework. Zend had 5k+ GitHub stars before transitioning into the Laminas Project. Zend v3 still ranks 5th in PHPBenchmark. Laminas has three major verticals:

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5

Yii Framework

The Yii framework has a whopping 11Mn+ downloads from Packagist and 13.6k+ stars on GitHub. Yii, branded as ‘YES, it is!’, is a fast, secure, flexible PHP framework for web development, especially for building MVC architecture websites. It ranks 4 on the PHP Benchmarks list. Yii is a strictly Object-Oriented PHP framework and requires knowledge of inheritance, polymorphism, etc.

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CakePHP

CakePHP is an open-source web development PHP framework. It’s ranked 6th in PHP Benchmarks, just above the Laravel web development framework. The newly released v4.0 comes with a renovated skeleton design and provides APIs to enable developers for rapid application development. On GitHub, it has 8.3k+ stars and 555 contributors. For commercial support, you have cakeDC. CakeDC is the organization behind CakePHP. You can build highly secure and scalable web applications, including social networks, eCommerce, and online collaboration platforms using CakePHP.

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Slim Framework

Unlike the other web development PHP frameworks mentioned above, Slim, as the name goes, is a PHP micro-framework for web development. Are you aware of micro-frameworks? The ones listed above are full-stack frameworks. Slim, with 10k+ stars on GitHub, is a minimalistic web application and API development framework. Basically, this means you will only have the recipe and won’t get any ready-to-consume functions. In a full-stack framework, you get components, classes, interface for authorization, authentication, routing, paging, database operations, etc. In micro-framework, you get bare minimum support for HTTP requests and routing requests to appropriate controllers. Then why choose a micro-framework? Because it gives you flexibility and high-extensibility.

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8

Phalcon

You have Phalcon query language for writing queries, Phalcon transactions to ensure data integrity.

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Lumen Framework

Lumen is a micro-framework for developing PHP-powered web applications. It is written in PHP and created by the Laravel team itself. Lumen has 7.1k+ stars on GitHub and 45+ contributors.

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