Before talking about the PHP Frameworks, let's get a bit familiar with PHP language. What makes this language and its frameworks adopted by millions of PHP Developers!!
Well, PHP is one of the most popular and the simplest open source
server side scripting language which was designed to build dynamic web
pages. The advantages of PHP include faster implementation of solution
making it cost effective by reducing development time, easy to interface
with Apache/Mysql and the applications developed in PHP run faster on
internet, cross platform, easy to integrate with other technologies,
suitable for reuse, flexible on after development enhancements, supports
multilingual features and easy maintenance.
All
the frameworks of PHP are quite popular among the developer community
for their simplicity and modular form which provides a platform to
design robust applications and reusable components that speeds up the
development process. However, here we will discuss some of these PHP
frameworks that are a bit more popular and have a huge user base.
Let's start with CakePHP. One of the oldest PHP frameworks.
CakePHP:
CakePHP
is the most popular open source, rapid development framework of PHP
which is modeled on the principles of RoR and uses very well known
software designing patterns and software engineering patterns.
Around year 2005, Michal Tatarynowicz,
a Polish programmer wrote a smaller version of a rapid application in
PHP which he named as Cake and published it under MIT license in the
later part of 2005. This exposed Cake to the CakePHP Developers
community and helped in promoting the growth of Cake over years. Till
about the end of 2005 Cake Software Foundation was formed by G. J.
Woodworth and L. Masters to endorse the development of CakePHP. The
first version of the software (Version 1.0) was released in May 2006.
Since then, CakePHP
have been continuing its journey and have succeeded to retain the
popularity while expanding its user base that is been constantly working
on developing the framework.
Magento:
Magento
is the most popular open source eCommerce platform build in Zend
framework and launched in the year 2008. It was originally developed by
an US based private company formed by a student Roy Rubin which he named
as Varien Inc. Magento was designed in an attempt to overcome the
shortcomings of a then prevalent eCommerce software called OS Commerce.
The
first version of Magento was independently made by Varien Inc. in 2008
but, in the later part of the same year eBay bought a large amount of
share and slowly it completely acquired Varien Inc. Till 2016 Varien has
been working as a separate division of eBay until it got separated to
form a new company called Magento Inc.
Laravel:
Laravel
is a powerful open source PHP framework that was created in an attempt
to provide an advanced alternative to CodeIgnitor framework which was
not capable of providing certain features. The creators had an intention
of developing powerful web applications using Laravel. First beta
version of Laravel was released in the year 2011 and by the beginning of
2015 Laravel was one among the most popular frameworks of PHP.
The
syntax of Laravel is elegant and highly expressive which provides the
websites developed using Laravel an artistic touch while being less time
consuming. It's backed by a huge community which makes help and support
handy.
CodeIgniter:
CodeIgniter
is a simple yet very powerful framework of PHP. It’s easy to use and
lightweight popular for it’s flexibility and hassle free installation.
CodeIgniter is built on a easy to use liner folder structure that allows
streamlining the codes of a webpage.
CodeIgniter
is very easy to learn and implement having an easy learning curve which
makes it widely adoptable by new programmers.
Zend:
Zend
is popular due to it’s simplicity, flexibility towards incorporating
new features of latest versions of PHP and new utilities. It's an object
oriented open source PHP framework having an unique structure of
components each designed with some dependency on the other. CodeIgniter
follows solid object oriented design principles providing the developers
with the flexibility of using the different components at will. It also
has a varied range of features that facilitate application development
quality.
Concluding Note:
There
are also many other well known PHP frameworks like WordPress, Python,
Ruby on Rails, Yii etc. The common thing about all the PHP frameworks
is, these are extremely simple and well structured which makes them easy
to learn and widely acceptable by the programmers and PHP Development Companies.
