PHP frameworks are in market for a long time now.They help a PHP developer to write clean and reusable code. It follows the MVC pattern, ensuring a clear separation of logic and presentation. But there is a much discussion all around because some prefer performance, some prefer better documentation, some prefer amount of built-in functions etc.
Here we will discuss some top frameworks.
Yii vs CodeIgniter vs Zend vs Cakephp Comparison Chart
yiiframework
Statistically, currently yiiframework is the best php framework in the market and my favorite. The main features that makes Yii on top spot is its features and a bit faster than Codeigniter and Zend framework.
CodeIgniter
Statistically, Codeigniter comes on second spot. It’s a choice of most of php developer. It’s relatively easy to learn. Feature wise, Codeigniter is powerful frameworks such as Zend and Cake. Its major goal is to enable you to develop projects much faster than you could, by providing a rich set of libraries for commonly needed tasks, as well as a simple interface and logical structure to access these libraries.
Zend Framework
Statistically, Zend Framework comes on third spot. It’s a powerfull PHP Framework which is more secure, reliable and allow Web 2.0 applications & web services. It is used in building big applications.
Statistically, CakePHP comes on 4th spot. It’s a popular framework for web application development. It comes comes with a lot of features: code generation, translations, database access, caching, validation, authentication etc.