10 PHP Frameworks to Adopt for Web Development

At present, it is the most preferred PHP framework with a big community of developers.

Laravel features a number of packages such as lightweight Blade templating engine, ORM (Object Relational Mapping), RESTful (Representational State Transfer), a packaging system, controllers, etc.

It also features queue management that handles tasks in the background and then logs all the activities during smooth front end tasks. It is soon to introduce a routing package also.

It also easily integrates with Elixir (other functional language) and Gulp (open source javascript toolkit) so that any bower (package manager) and npm (node .js packages) can be called through ssh (secure shell) directly.

Another best thing about Laravel is that it handles NoSQL structures such as Redis or MongoDB. Recently, it came out with an administration panel design- Nova. This feature would definitely facilitate the software developers who want to be more innovative and more productive.

Best Features of Laravel:

· Rapid App development

· Unit testing  

· MVC architecture

· High-level abstraction

· Overloading capabilities with dynamic methods

· Strong encryption packages

· ORM (Object Relational Management)

2. Phalcon

MVC architecture based PHP framework, Phalcon was built as an extension to C. This implies that it is very fast. It also uses fewer resources than any other platform which helps in translating the HTTP requests at a faster pace.

It brings all the developers data storage tools- Object Document Mapping for MongoDB and its own SQL dialect-PHQL. Other major features include form builders, template engines, app development with all other international support, etc.

The phalcon PHP framework is also best for developing performance REST APIs and completely functional web applications.

· Auto-loading

· C-extension

· Impeccable built-in security features  

3. CakePHP

An ideal framework for the beginners and for the rapid development of commercial web applications. Though it comes with many other packages to serve the basic requirements, the special scaffolding functionality speeds up the development process.

MVC architecture facilitates the development process. The configuration makes the development even easier by evading the need for complicated XML, YAML configuration files. All these features make the development process faster. The security features prevent XSS, SQL, CSRF, Injection, etc.

· Extensive Secure tools

· Database Access, Validation, Caching, Authentication

· Scripting and SQL injection prevention,

· CSRF and Form Validation

4. Yii

The Yii PHP framework stands for Yes, it is! Suitable for all kinds of web applications, it is a high-performance, component-based framework. It is also called as a universal web programming framework.

It comes with the easy installation process and robust security features for developing highly secure web applications i.e. portals, forums, CMS, etc. It lets the developers avoid writing complexities of repetitive SQL statements as data can be modelled in terms of objects.

· Highly extensive

· Robust Secure tools

· Reported problems are assisted with instant help

5. Symfony

Symfony has been the best, stable, well documented, modular, and high-performance framework for almost a decade now. It was developed by French SensioLabs and is backed by them. It is a big name in the web development world. It is also used for the development of REST APIs and web application.

Best Features of Symfony:

· High performance with byte-code caching