When comparing FuelPHP vs Nette, the Slant community recommends Nette for most people. In the question“What are the best PHP frameworks?” Nette is ranked 12th while FuelPHP is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Nette is:
Nette is built to help developers create good, maintainable code using the DRY principle.
Specs
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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 Built around good programming practices
Nette is built to help developers create good, maintainable code using the DRY principle.
Pro Open source
Nette is open source and is distributed under the MIT license.
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 Hard to find information in English
Nette is mostly used in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and most of the information coming from third-party sources is not in English.
