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What are the fastest PHP frameworks
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KumbiaPHP
Free
5.4+
PHP
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Fat-Free Framework
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Phalcon
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Laravel 5
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7.2.0
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Slim
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KumbiaPHP
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KumbiaPHP
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KumbiaPHP
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Experiences
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Very fast
Fastest PHP framework. Check this independent benchmark.
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CooperativeBulucChabtan's Experience
Fácil de aprender, permite reutilizar el código orientado a objetos, super rápido
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PHP version:
5.4+
Written in:
PHP
License:
New BSD
Default ORM:
Kumbia ActiveRecord, but can use any ORM
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Easy to use
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ThoroughMagec's Experience
Very Fast and easy t ouse
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It's MVC
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Henry's Experience
Really fastest PHP framework
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Supports AJAX
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CaffeinatedEnlil's Experience
I have made a couple of web apps with KumbiaPHP and it's an awesome framewok
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Simple template system
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SuccessfulGlaucus's Experience
Es muy fácil rápido y con una gran comunidad.
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Convention over configuration
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OrganizedHendursaga's Experience
Buen framework para aplicaciones
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Scaffolding support
This feature allows you to save a lot of time. You'll create CRUD forms with just one line of code, and you'll be able to customize actions, queries, views, and even the template system.
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Nelson Rojas's Experience
I've used KumbiaPHP for 6 years, in about 10 projects. It's easy to learn, and it's easy to work with it. In my opinion, if you like to use Ruby on Rails, you'll enjoy using KumbiaPHP.
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Easy API Rest
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LivelyIxpiyacoc's Experience
Very fast and easy to use. I love it.
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Cache administration
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Easy API REST
It's quick to use the RestController to build API solutions.
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Zero config
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Fat-Free Framework
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Fat-Free Framework
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Fat-Free Framework
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Lightweight without losing functionality
The framework is very lightweight and fast. Even though it's pretty light, it still does not lose a lot of functionality.
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Default ORM doesn't support joins
The default ORM for this framework is missing some features such as joins. But it's important to keep in mind that it's a small plugin, only 23KB in size which still can be replaced with a larger ORM if needed. An alternative the drop in f3-cortex ORM which is popular, and supported by the community, which supports Joins and much more.
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PHP version:
5.4+
Default Template Engine:
custom
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Shortened development time
Building an application that processes a URL (display a page, submit a form, invoke Ajax, etc.) requires very little code and can be achieved very quickly. Allows developers to focus on the application itself and not the plumbing.
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Very stable
You know those frameworks that have updated 5 times during your own development phase? Well, F3 sees one or two updates per year. Never had any issues updating or upgrading. F3 just works.
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Multiple view engines
Default view engine is superb and can also work with varieties of PHP view engines including Twig.
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Highly modular
Virtually everything is modular. You can choose which modules and libraries to include and to keep the framework as lightweight as possible.
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Phalcon
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Phalcon
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Phalcon
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Experiences
3
Pros
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Cons
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Extremely fast
Since the framework is and extension built in C it's extremely fast and efficient. It's actually one of the fastest PHP frameworks, and according to some benchmarks it's the fastest framework out there.
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Debugging requires knowledge of C
You need to be a C programmer to debug Zephir or C code. Or if Phalcon is not maintained anymore and you have a problem and don't have much skills in C, you will be hard-pressed to find a C programmer to fix it.
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Jesse's Experience
Using it since version 1, it's at version 3 with minimal breaking changes. Prior to PHP 7 it dominated in speed. With PHP 7 it's still insanely fast and uses low resources. You must install stubs in your editor to get autocomplete. The learning curve is a bit easier than Laravel - both of which are great frameworks.
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Written in:
PHP
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Loosely coupled components
Some components can be used as standalone packages like models, views, etc..
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MagicalIuchar's Experience
What I love most about phalcon is I can use only the parts I want and ignore the rest. It does not lock me into using it in a specific way.
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Uses Volt template engine
The Volt template engine, which is embedded into Phalcon itself takes it's inspiration from the Jinja template engine and as such it's nice to look at, with a clear and understandable syntax. Volt also compiles very fast, like Phalcon itself, so it avoids being a bottleneck for the framework's overall speed.
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Mehmet SAĞLAM's Experience
The fastest php framework on the market...
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Very flexible project structure
You can set up the base project as you want. It's very flexible
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Clean and light project code
Since the framework code is not in the project directory, the code is light and clean.
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Open source
Phalcon is open source and is available under the BSD License.
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Customizable with Zephir
Zephir is a high-level language designed to create PHP extensions easily by PHP programmers with no knowledge in C. Zephir does this by compiling directly to C and then the C program is in turn compiled to be run as a PHP extension. This, coupled with the fact that Zephir's syntax is very similar to PHP makes it a perfect way for PHP developers to use it for customizing Phalcon.
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Laravel 5
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Laravel 5
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Laravel 5
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Pros
8
Cons
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Specs
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Extremely powerful template system
Laravel has a powerful template system called Blade. It's quite similar to Twig or Moustache with lots of curly braces but the real power comes from the usage of PHP code directly in the view. Blade templates compile directly to raw PHP and are processed in the server when a request is made.
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Bloated
While the speed doesn't seem to be an issue with it (on local tests), in production it may be hindered. The framework creates a ton of files and folders, some of which your app might not even use. Not good if you don't like having a ton of folders and rigid non-standard PHP folder structure for development.
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PHP version:
7.2.0
Written in:
PHP
Default Template Engine:
Blade
License:
MIT License
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Can use Symfony components
Laravel uses many libraries built for the Symfony PHP framework. Many of these libraries are well-built and have been tested by users before. Since the point of using a web framework is to shorten development time and to avoid reinventing the wheel for problems that have already been solved, then it's logical for a framework to use libraries already built to solve problems that have already been solved.
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Querying can be hard sometimes
You might end up with array that you can not collect, or a collection that you can not transform into an array. Also, it returned an objectified array (array that can have missing indexes {(0:{...},2:{...}})
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Good for building RESTful APIs
With migrations, powerful and intuitive Eloquent CRUD, resource routing, and simple JSON response out of the box, a complete REST API can be written in hours.
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Follows bad design practices
Uses bad practices, like Singletons, Magic models, Middleware.
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Comes with its own CLI
Laravel comes out of the box with it's own CLI called Artisan. With Artisan developers can do several different tasks such as migrating databases, seeding databases, clearing the cache and much much more.
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Uses too much magic methods
It complicates debugging and autocompletion.
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Comes with an excellent built-in ORM
Laravel's Eloquent ORM is a simple and fast Object-Relational Mapping which helps with organizing the application's database. It supports the most popular databases (MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, etc.) out of the box.
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Hard to use model properties
You need to check all model properties in database to know it exists, or declare all them manually.
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Gives developers a great degree of freedom in how they set up their project structure
Laravel allows for free configuration and does not force developers to use a single project structure, instead they can change it to how they wish.
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Easy to learn
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Easy to write web apps with authentication
Laravel comes with Authentication capabilities and a fully-powered Auth class out of the box. For passwords it uses bcrypt.
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Slim
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Slim
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Slim
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13
Experiences
1
Pros
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Cons
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Open source
The Slim Framework is open source and is released under the MIT public license
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Very little consistency among different versions
There have been quite some changes that break the compatibility between Slim 2 and Slim 3. Even if you learned how to work with the Slim 2, you will find that Slim 3 requires re-training.
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DecorousAchuhucanac's Experience
Very fast
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Written in:
PHP
License:
GPL 2
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REST based
REST fans will love the REST based architecture.
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Too minimal
While it's true that Slim is a microframework, it's still too minimal. When used for throwaway projects or simple prototypes, it's perfect. But in the long run, it becomes less and less useful and you end up in implementing a full custom framework in trying to tackle all the missing features.
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Well organized and thorough documentation
Slim's documentation is well organized and detailed, every concept is thoroughly explained and it is very helpful for both advanced users and beginners.
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Flexible
Slim doesn't demand that you stick to a fixed folder structure. As long as you load Slim the right way you can do anything from there the way you like it.
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Extremely lightweight
Paired with swoole it's a micro service powerhouse.
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Extremely customizable
You can add any dependency, package or class that you want to use as a contained dependency.
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Useful classes
Contains classes for managing requests, responses, cookies, logging, views, HTTP caching, and more.
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Hooks for executing code at different points in its life-cycle
Slim supports code hooks for executing functions at different points in time during the application's lifecycle.
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Supports tie-ins for Rack-like middleware
Rack is an interface used in Ruby frameworks used to group and order modules, which most of the time are Ruby classes, and specify between them. Slim uses a simple concept for it's middleware. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses it unifies the middleware into a single method call.
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Lumen
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Lumen
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Lumen
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5
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2
Cons
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Specs
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Highest performing PHP micro-Framework
Lumen is benchmarked at 100/rps (Requests Per Second) faster than Slim v3, which used to be considered the fastest and most performant micro-Framework to date with the ability to handle 1800/rps. (1900/rps vs 1800/rps respectively).
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It's based off Laravel and inherits its shortcomings
Lumen inherits many shortcomings of Laravel, such as static proxy classes.
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PHP version:
7.1.3
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Easily upgradable to Laravel
Since it's basically just a minimal version of Laravel, it can be upgraded to a full Laravel app if the need arises. No need for code changes, just import the code to a new Laravel install.
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Made to work alongside Laravel
Lumen as a framework is at it's full potential when used alongside it's older brother. Lumen was created to be used for microservices alongside Laravel, which is used for more user-facing applications. If a project is already using another framework other than Laravel, it would be better to use another microframework for microservices instead of Lumen.
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CodeIgniter
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CodeIgniter
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CodeIgniter
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Specs
PHP version:
5.4.8+
Default Template Engine:
Custom CodeIgniter engine
Default ORM:
DataMapper ORM
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Zend Framework
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ommendation
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Zend Framework
My Recommendation for
Zend Framework
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Experiences
1
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Allows customization
For developpers not used to Zend, they can use a predefined structure and use preloaded components and classes to build and maintain their application. But for advanced developpers, they can customize the structure to stick to their needs (or their likings) and extend primary Zend components for fine-tuned apps or replace the initial predefined Zend components by third parties components such as Doctrine ORM or another logging or templating framework.
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pandeg's Experience
Better to use for serious, upper-level projects Very customizable
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PHP version:
5.3+
Default Template Engine:
Zend_View
Default ORM:
No default, but an ORM can be installed.
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Wide database support
Zend supports almost all kinds of databases out there. From MySQL, IBM DB2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL.
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Leaf
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Leaf
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Leaf
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3
Experiences
1
Pros
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Specs
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Simple structure
Leaf has a simple structure and easy code.
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Mychi Darko's Experience
Every component in Leaf was written in raw php code, also Leaf's code on github unlike other frameworks doesn't have any external dependencies
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PHP version:
5.3+
Written in:
PHP
Default Template Engine:
Leaf Blade
License:
MIT
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Ice Framework
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Ice Framework
My Recommendation for
Ice Framework
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Delivered as C-extension
You don't need to learn or use the C language since the functionality is exposed as PHP classes ready for you to use.
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