Hi, the Symfony link is wrong. Should be
http://www.symfony-project.org/

Great compilation :-)

@Bolorino: Thanks!

Hi, the xAjax description is wrong ;)
Btw great blog you have here!!

Regards!!

I am a big fan of CodeIgniter, developed a lot of websites based on it, but from some days I am starting using the new Joomla 1.5 as a framework. It is purely MVC and the API is very clean. You can reach developement goals and build web projects based on the CMS in hours. That's a time saver, and a middle way between a framework and a full blown CMS.

yeaaahh... CI is on top list.
Nice :-D

Do you know Zynapse? It s one of the best so far. It worths a try

Wow, I didn't know there were so many besides cake, symfony and zend.

What about MODx? http://modxcms.com/

It recently won "Most Promising Open Source Content Management System" in the CMS Awards 2007

Great List Antonio!

@James: ModX isn't really a frame work more engine than a framework...
Love ModX...
Kohana is very nice..

also http://xataface.com/

Thanks for featuring the Zoop Framework in this list. It is a great MVC framework with a lot of excellent features.

Great list Antonio.

I use CakePHP for 2 years and is powerful tool for faster web development.

Now I starting Symfony, that has a bigger comunity. It's similar than Rails.

CoughPHP is an extremely lightweight PHP ORM framework that features code generation.

Cough was designed to be extremely easy to learn, simple to use, and focuses on high performance. The lack of feature-bloat makes it the perfect choice to integrate with pre-existing codebases, legacy systems, etc. And the code generation techniques to handle CRUD avoid the performance pitfalls that many other ORM methodologies fall into.

It plugs very easily into LightVC, a PHP MVC framework that doesn't include the "M". But LightVC actually plugs into anything quite easily, and doesn't insist that you use any specific ORM or persistence layer. Like Cough, simplicity is key: LightVC only solves the core Controller-View problem, making it a snap if you're tasked with refactoring poorly-designed code to include MVC design patterns.

In my benchmarks, CoughPHP outperforms other PHP 5 Strict ORM frameworks, and has a lower barrier to entry. Same with LightVC versus other PHP 5 MVC frameworks. Most of them try to do so much, and end up doing it all in a jumbled, confusing fashion.

You completely skipped Kohana -- a PHP5 swift framework originally based on CodeIgniter.

http://www.silverstripe.com/

while it is a php CMS it is built on an MVC framework - sapphire
http://www.silverstripe.com/overview/

Many thanks for sharing these!

For a beginner, which one is the most easy to learn?

Or... Take a look at Ruby on Rails. Much of the functionality of these great frameworks were first introduced in Rails, and it continues to innovate.

PHP developers may think it´s way too trouble to learn a whole new language to use a framework, but Ruby is very easy. Read more about it in http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/34-myth-5-rails-is-hard-because-of-ruby)

A great PHP framework is ATK:

http://www.atk-framework.com/

ATK is a special purpose framework, targeted at business applications. It allows you to build an application with very small amounts of code.

Its focus on business features makes it an excellent framework for HRM, CRM, data management and CMS type applications.

The Gallery team recently choose Kohana as the framework for the next release.

We are extremely happy with how quickly the team has picked up the framework and how easy it is to extend and build out application with it.

Yii PHP framework (http://www.yiiframework.com)
has richer feature set than most of the listed frameworks and yet with excellent performance. It is also written in strict OOP and favors convention over configuration.

Which one is best one except Zend framework?

Thanks,
Hoang

www.carehub.vn

Hi, what about Smarty?

Symfony \o/

I can't figure what is the befenit to use a glue Framework (Code Igniter) over a full stack framework (Zend, symfony , cakephp) ??

Smarty is a template engine.

I am hoping for some orientation-help with http://ydframework.berlios.de/ because I am looking for a framework for a small application that can easily be distributed and installed to common hosting environments (mediatemple, 1and1 etc.).

Which of the other frameworks do fit those needs? What was your choice?

Excellent List!
I love Code Igniter!

just a little tip: cake is 50% slower than CI... so dont use cake if you want a fast framework.

Kohana is good!

For those who value flexibility and freedom over forced convention, I recommend having a look at Kolibri. While it provides sane defaults with no/minimal configuration, you are for instance free to use the template system you prefer, whether it is XSLT, Smarty, pure PHP or something else entirely.

A new framework came in market http://www.yiiframework.com/

combination of everything
http://www.yiiframework.com/about/

seems good, initially. working on more side.

The best is: cakePHP

CodeIgniter is awesome. It's fun to code, easy to understand and never dissapoints.

a great Chinese php framework:qeephp and fleaphp.the speed is more than yii.

+1 Yii Framework, after testing/using 10+ of these frameworks, Yii is the 1st one that made me switch from my own code.

I suggest keeping an eye on Flow3 http://flow3.typo3.org/

Adding to what Cassio wrote:
"PHP developers may think it´s way too trouble to learn a whole new language to use a framework, but Ruby is very easy."
When I first starting using Symfony, it might as well have been a new language. But learning the rules and classes/functions have yielded all the expected positive results of a framework. I haven't gotten into RoR, but based on my Symfony experience, I would agree with Cassio's remark.

Another missing framework within the list: Lion PHP Framework :)

Regards
Antonio

Have a look at Innomatic web applications container too: http://www.innomatic.org

One of the main differences between Innomatic and the other PHP platform is that Innomatic is a container for multiple applications and domains/sites, while the majority of other frameworks serves only as a skeleton for a single Web application/site.

In fact, already existing (and multiple) frameworks can be ported and used as webapp handlers for domain webapps. Innomatic also provides a Web Desktop environment.

good job,guy,there is a site work same with you,it is phpframeworks.com

So far, I had only used CodeIgniter and just started out with CakePHP. CodeIgniter really simlple and lightwight and 'works' for me.