When comparing FuelPHP vs open qoob, the Slant community recommends FuelPHP for most people. In the question“What are the best PHP frameworks?” FuelPHP is ranked 15th while open qoob is ranked 23rd. 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 Open source
Open Qoob is completely free and open source. It's hosted on GitHub.

Pro Has auto loading classes
This framework uses PHP's spl_autoload
methods to automatically load classes. This means that if the class is inside the project folder structure, there's no need to call, include or require it.

Pro Simple and lightweight
Qoob is made to create simple REST APIs and not full-blown applications. Therefore it's quite lightweight.
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 Still under active development
This framework is still in beta stage and under active development. This means that a lot of stuff may be subject to change and some features may not be 100% complete yet.
