Posted on February 20, 2011, 12:59 pm
This is the one of the most discussed question about the PHP frameworks.
So it depends upon particular person and project which framework will best suit for you.
But depending upon my experience, I can show you some way to choose the framework.
1. If you’re just want to use MVC framework for your next project, then I suggest you to go for CodeIgniter.
It is very easy to learn and well-documented. Furthermore, it’s very flexible because it is not so strict on naming conventions
etc. Furthermore, Model is optional while coding in codeIgniter so it is not necessary to use model for each
controllers.
2. If you’re coding architecture savvy, then I suggest you to go with CakePHP, probably the most popular PHP framework but I must admit.
This framework’s coding style is similar to Ruby on Rails and naming conventions are strict in this framework.
So if you’re working on a huge project in a team then this project will be the right choice for you.
3. If you’ve to use a lot web services external APIs in your project then Zend Framework will be right choice for you, it contains huge libraries for external APIs compared to any other PHP MVC framework.
The main benefits of this framework is that you can use them as components(without using MVC) in your project or you can follow Zend framework’s MVC architecture to develop your project.
The other benefits of this framework is that you can use it inside any of the above two MVC frameworks.