The PHP framework can help you write concise reusable code, follow the MVC pattern, and ensure that the application logic and presentation are separated. There are a lot of different frameworks, some good performance, some documents, and some provide a lot of built-in features and so on.
Here we list the best PHP Framework for the year 2013, which is based on data from Google Trends 2012.
The following figure is a comparison chart of the four frameworks for Yii, CodeIgniter, Zend, and cake:
Yiiframework
From the statistical point of view, Yii is the best PHP framework, the main reason for winning is its function and performance, performance is slightly better than the Codeigniter and Zend framework.
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CodeIgniter
In the above statistics in the row, this is the majority of PHP developers choose, relatively easy to learn! CI is as powerful as Zend and Cake, and its main purpose is to quickly develop and provide rich libraries and public packages.
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Zend Framework
The Zend framework is third and is more secure and reliable, allowing Web 2.0 applications and Web services development, which are typically used to build large applications.
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Cake
Cake ranked four, this is a very popular framework, contains a large number of features: code generation, translation, database access, caching, data validation, authentication, and so on.
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