Research & Documentation 06 Frameworks

6R - PHP Frameworks

PHPixie

PHPixie is an open-source PHP based framework that is easy to use and flexible. This framework is able to help developers organize projects, write clean and efficient code while also still being able to reuse it. This framework offers 100% test coverage by browsing the entire code coverage report that is generated by PHPUnit. It has fast performance, built using powerful components that can be used without the framework, and solid architecture.

Phalcon

According to Phalcon, with their innovative architecture makes this frame work one of the fastest ever. It is a full stack framework delivered as a C-extension and developers do not need to know C to use Phalcon. The functionality is exposed as PHP classes and interfaces under Phalcon namespace. Some features are Object Relational Mapping (ORM) which is provided by Phalcon allowing you to manipulate database records as classes and objects. MySQL is supported. Phalcon with its own query language called PHQL is a high level, object oriented SQL dialect that can write queries using standard SQL-like language.

Symfony

Symfony is a set of PHP components, Web App framework, philosophy, and a community that all works together. Symphony's components are decoupled and reusable on which the best PHP apps are built, like Drupal, Prestashop, and Laravel. This framework consists of a passionate community of over 600,000 developers from more than 120 countries, all committed to helping PHP surpass. The project stats of Symphony is +3,000 Contributors, +600,000 Symfony developers, and +680,000,000 monthly downloads.

Summary

Overall, these PHP frameworks all have a similar purpose and thats to build web apps more quickly and efficiently with its structured environment and built in features. What is really neat is the passionate community that is usually involved with them frameworks. Helping one another to spread knowledge and increase skill as developers.