When comparing Aura Framework vs Leaf, the Slant community recommends Leaf for most people. In the question“What are the best PHP frameworks?” Leaf is ranked 13th while Aura Framework is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Leaf is:
Leaf has a simple structure and easy code.
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Pros
Pro High quality, well tested code
This framework has highly tested code. It is very reliable. In fact, most of its libraries have gone through scrutinizer-ci.com and they all score very high.
Pro Loosely coupling allows for lots of flexibility
Aura is a loosely coupled collection of independent libraries with no base classes. This allow for extreme flexibility in choosing what libraries are needed.
Pro Simple structure
Leaf has a simple structure and easy code.
Pro Useful classes
Contains classes for managing requests, responses, cookies, logging, views, HTTP caching, and more.
Pro Beautiful, well organised documentation
Pro REST-based
Cons
Con LICENSE
Con Small community
Aura's community is still relatively small and it can be a little hard to find help or guides if you get stuck somewhere.
Con Lack of a database layer
Has inbuilt connection methods for only mysqli and pdo.
