20 2014-Year best PHP framework

For Web developers, PHP is a very powerful and popular programming language. Many of the world's top websites have been developed based on PHP. In this article, let's review the 20 best PHP frameworks for 2014 years.

Every developer knows that having a strong framework can make development work faster, more secure, and more effective. Selecting a suitable framework before developing a project can lay a solid foundation for the future, with the following 20 PHP frameworks you can choose to use and will certainly help you.

1, Laravel

Laravel is a free and open source PHP application framework designed to develop MVC based Web applications, and personally feel that Laravel is the best PHP framework in the 2014, and it can help you create cool Web apps and easily use permission validation, URL routing, session, and caching functions.

2, Phalcon

Phalcon is the fastest running PHP framework, its bottom is implemented in C, but the upper layer provides some PHP extensions, Phalcon as a PHP framework for high-performance and low consumption is known. Although it is implemented in C language, but we do not need to use the C language, you can use PHP as long as it.

3, Symfony

Symfony is a PHP framework for Web projects that can help you accelerate the creation and maintenance of PHP applications. Symfony can help you save a lot of repetitive coding work and shift the focus of your work to design and control.

Symfony is a reusable PHP component, which is based on the MIT Protocol Open Source software, many CMS systems and forum programs are based on symfony development, such as Drupal and phpBB.

4. Yii

Yii is a fast, secure and professional PHP framework, and it is also a Web 2.0 application of high-performance PHP framework, Yii is very powerful, built in the following functions: MVC, Dao/activerecord, i18n, permissions validation, caching, security control, testing, Data access objects, and so on.

5, CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is a very agile open source PHP framework, if you want to use PHP to develop a simple and elegant toolkit, then CodeIgniter is very appropriate.

6, Cake

Cake is a veteran PHP framework, because of its excellent so also included in the 2014-year best PHP framework, now stable version is already V3.0. Cake can help you create PHP applications simply and quickly, and you can achieve powerful functionality with little code.

7, Aura

If you like to create an application with simple code, you can choose to use Aura,aura also has a considerable number of users, using the method and cake similar, Aura's main goal is to provide PHP developers with a high-quality, testable, standardized components of the framework.

8. Zend Framework

I've used Zend 1 and Zend 2 in large Web projects in the last few years, and as a top PHP framework, Zend really works, and the documentation is very rich. We can use Zend to create some very scalable PHP applications.

9, Kohana

Kohana is a agile but powerful PHP framework that allows us to quickly create Web applications with Kohana, because it has a wealth of components such as data access interfaces, code analysis, encryption and validation, and so on.

10. Slim Framework

Slim is a lightweight PHP framework, and as a micro-framework, Slim allows you to simply create powerful applications and API interfaces. Slim has powerful routing capabilities, custom view templates, flash messages, AES-256 encrypted cookies, HTTP caching, customizable logging, exception handling, and debugging and simple configuration.

11, Fuel PHP

Fuel PHP is a simple, extensible PHP Framework, based on the other framework of the design concept, Fuel is already a V2.0 version of the current understanding of the beta version.

Fuel fully supports HMVC, which is part of the fuel architecture. In addition, fuel's powerful routing features give you the flexibility to handle the relationship between the Controller and the view.

12, Flight

Flight is a very scalable miniature PHP framework that allows you to quickly create restful Web applications that require PHP5.3 version support and, of course, flight is open source based on the MIT Protocol, flight.

13, Medoo

I like this miniature frame very much, Medoo is one of the most lightweight PHP framework, can use it to accelerate our application development. It has only 13KB of a file, learning and use are very simple, and Medoo is also open source.

14, Phpixie

Phpixie is a lightweight PHP MVC framework, it is very small, and the documentation is more comprehensive, we need to do as much as possible configuration.

15, Pop PHP

Pop is a strong and easy to learn PHP framework, and provides a lot of detailed API interface and its documentation, support PHP5.3 and its version. Pop PHP is still a lightweight feature, and although many new features are being added to the pop, it's still handy to use.

16. Simple MVC Framework

Simple MVC framework installation and its simplicity, the code structure is also very simple, easy to learn. We only need to set the site path to successfully install it. There is also a discussion area for the simple MVC framework in Twitter and Facebook, which is lightweight and less than 1M in size.

17. TYPO3 Flow

TYPO3 is developed by TYPO3 Management, one of the largest PHP communities, and an open-source PHP framework.

18, Nette

The popular PHP development tool, its design concept is as simple and as safe as possible, Nette has been for you to consider your site security, including XSS attacks, session hijacking, session tampering and other security issues.

19, Agavi

Agavi is a PHP5 PHP MVC framework that helps developers write concise code and is very scalable.

20, Silex

Silex is also a PHP5.3 and its version of the Micro-PHP framework, Silex API is very interesting to use, because the API is simple enough to use pimple services, become a great third-party extension application.