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Add to SafariWhen comparing FuelPHP vs Flight, the Slant community recommends FuelPHP for most people. In the question“What are the best PHP frameworks?” FuelPHP is ranked 15th while Flight is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose FuelPHP is:
Fuel has very few restrictions on how to write code. Classes and controllers can be in any file structure, any folder can be the "modules" folder and native classes can be extended any way you want.
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Pros
Pro Total flexibility
Fuel has very few restrictions on how to write code. Classes and controllers can be in any file structure, any folder can be the "modules" folder and native classes can be extended any way you want.
Pro License
FuelPHP is open source and is released under the MIT license.
Pro Out of the box HMVC structure
FuelPHP follows the HMVC pattern which makes it possible to divide the code into smaller modules.
Pro Secure
Fuel takes security very serious, and as a result, has implemented the following measures to ensure the safety of your web applications:
- Output encoding in views
- CSRF protection
- XSS filtering
- Input filtering
- SQL injection
Pro Powerful yet lightweight ORM
FuelPHP is all about being lightweight and simple, this is also demonstrated by it's built-in ORM, it's simple yet powerful. It maps a model to each table in the database, assigns fields on the table depending on the model configuration.
Pro Uses static methods
Since Flight uses static methods, it does not require for the application class to be instantiated.
Pro Open source
Flight is open source and is released under the MIT license.
Pro Filters
A unique feature of Flight is something that the author calls filters. Filters are functions which can be executed before and after any other function and can change the parameters and the output of said function.
This feature is used instead of hooks which in other frameworks are used to execute code into different parts of the application's life-cycle.
Cons
Con Small community
FuelPHP has a pretty small community compared to other alternatives. This means that there are not many resources and guides for it out there, but on the other hand, it's easier to get help from the core team of developers that are working on Fuel.
Con Cannot use ArrayAccess
The fact that it uses static methods means that it's impossible for Flight to make use of ArrayAccess, which in turns means that it cannot inject dependencies easily.
