If access to the World Wide Web is powered by Google’s search engine, then it’s safe to say that PHP powers the internet. Take a look at this graph to see why PHP is an outlier when it comes to being the backend of webpages:

PHP powers three-fourth of all webpages that constitute the worldwide web.

PHP is not a dead language by any means and any webpage designer worth their salt can tell you how they’ve come across and worked with PHP or use things that use PHP.

That said, PHP isn’t the neatest of programming languages. PHP has been around for ages, and the age shows.PHP isn’t the easiest of languages to program in. It’s tough, verbose and cluttered. It’s very easy to make mistakes and beginners that don’t know the best coding practices make code that can be really hard to modify.

But who uses PHP in its raw form today? There are frameworks that wrap up all that nasty code into readable, understandable and thinkable parts.

In this article, we shall take a look at a few MVC supporting PHP frameworks and what they’re useful for.

Laravel

This is the go-to framework for B2B web applications with substantial backend requirements and has widespread usage. This means that it won’t be hard to find backend developers who have experience with Laravel. Rich with features for task scheduling, testing, and in-built authentication, this framework really allows developers to make applications much faster without compromising upon performance and security.

To give Laravel a try, you can install the ‘vagrant box’ that runs a virtual web development environment. The instructions can be found on Laravel’s easy-to-read documentation.

CodeIgniter

This framework is all about constructing reusable components and maintaining a small footprint. It is a lightweight MVC framework that can be used to develop scalable apps.The built-in features are loosely coupled, with little dependencies, thus allowing for easier upgrade maintenance.
Lastly, CodeIgniter has helper functions that are extendable, which means that you can create custom implementations of certain functions in the case that the out of the box function doesn’t do exactly what you want it to.

Symphony

This MVC framework can be used to make enterprise-level web applications. It has excellent documentation, replete with examples for every component and an active, supportive community. The framework has embedded best practices that can really help beginners.
Now, coming to the framework itself. Symphony has OOPS architecture that can make for expanding the project to the required scale. It has highly customizable features that saves on development time.It allows for all levels of development.

Symphony’s features can be separated and used in a small-scale architecture without adding the entire framework. It provides means for developing customized frameworks for medium-scale architectures.As for large-scale architectures, Symphony has been the go-to choice for a lot of web applications such as Drupal and Joomla.

Yii

The “Yes It Is” framework makes use of components, just like Symphony. This means that like Symphony, Yii allows for rapid application development. It is extremely secure and is very useful for e-commerce web applications. Compound that with its lazy loading techniques, Yii is the fastest and most secure PHP framework out there.

We hope this article was beneficial to you and are sold on trying out these frameworks. Let us know of your experience with these frameworks and any other frameworks that you like!

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