Best Development Frameworks for PHP

Find and compare the best Development Frameworks for PHP in 2025

Use the comparison tool below to compare the top Development Frameworks for PHP on the market. You can filter results by user reviews, pricing, features, platform, region, support options, integrations, and more.

  • 1
    SymfonyInsight Reviews

    SymfonyInsight

    Symfony

    €19 per month
    We want to help your team grow using the best tools and practices. We offer a wide range of training plans for Symfony and PHP, with different support methods. Symfony's creators offer many intelligent solutions that will help your business grow during every stage of your web project development. You or your team can benefit from a variety of pre-packaged and custom-made services. Our Symfony / PHP applications are created by our development teams in compliance with the current state-of-the-art and the best practices. We can validate your complementary profiles, Front-end or Back-End, according to your requirements. Our 50+ international partners network is an expert in the most recent web development tools and methods.
  • 2
    Laravel Reviews
    Laravel is a web framework that uses expressive and elegant syntax. We've already laid the foundation, allowing you to create without worrying about the little things. Clean code is something we love as much as you. Simple and elegant syntax allows you to access amazing functionality. Each feature has been carefully considered to offer a great developer experience. You can dispatch background jobs to perform slow tasks such as sending emails or generating reports, while still getting a lightning fast response time. Stop sweating authentication. Laravel provides secure, session-based authentication with scaffolding, while Laravel Sanctum allows for painless authentication of APIs and mobile apps using Laravel Sanctum. Laravel is committed in delivering the best possible testing experience. No more broken tests that are difficult to maintain. Beautiful testing APIs, database seeding, browser testing, and painless shipping allow you to ship with confidence.
  • 3
    CakePHP Reviews
    The migration guide contains a complete list about what's new in version 4.3.0. It is worth reading this page before you upgrade. CakePHP 4 has many breaking changes. We have prepared a comprehensive migration guide that covers all the deprecated or removed features, as well as the new shiny features. Larry Masters, the founder and CEO of CakePHP, established CakeDC, the commercial entity behind CakePHP. CakeDC provides CakePHP consultancy, CakePHP training, and code review services. CakeDC offers the best CakePHP development, from startups and social networks to enterprise-level applications and e-commerce. All the things you need are included. One of the original PHP MVC frameworks includes translations, database access, caching and validation.
  • 4
    Yii Reviews

    Yii

    Yii PHP framework

    Free
    Yii is an efficient, fast, and secure PHP framework. Flexible and pragmatic, Yii works right out of box, with reasonable defaults. Yii can virtually eliminate repetitive coding tasks. However, the real creative work is yours. Often, this begins with the design of the entire system in terms a database schema. Migrations are the best way to achieve this. Yii provides maximum functionality with the least amount of overhead. Sane defaults, built-in tools and a solid base of features help you create secure and reliable code. Simple APIs and code generators help you write more code in less than half the time. Yii is a PHP-based web programming framework that can be used to develop all types of web applications. It is particularly suitable for large-scale applications, such as portals and forums, content-management systems (CMS), RESTful services and ecommerce. This is because of its component architecture and sophisticated caching.
  • 5
    Phalcon Reviews
    A full-stack PHP Framework delivered as a C extension. Phalcon is the fastest PHP framework built. Phalcon does not require developers to be C-literate. Its functionality can be accessed as PHP classes and PHP interfaces in the Phalcon namespace. Zephir/C is loaded along with PHP once on the daemon startup process of the web server. The extension provides classes and functions that are ready for use in any application. The code is not interpreted, but compiled because it is already compiled for a specific processor and platform. Phalcon's low-level architecture and optimizations provide the lowest overhead possible for MVC-based apps. Create single- and multimodule applications with ease. You can use the file structure, scheme and patterns that you are already familiar with. It's never been easier to write REST servers and apps, with no boilerplate and simple services that can fit in one single file.
  • 6
    Swoole Reviews
    Powering next-generation microservices. PHP's coroutine and fibers API makes it easy to build high-performance, scalable concurrent TCP, UDP Unix Sockets, HTTP, GRPC, HTTPS, GRPC, TCP, UDP services. PHP fibers and coroutines will help you create your next scalable async app. Swoole, compared to other async software or frameworks such as Nginx Tornado and Node.js is a complete solution with built-in support of async programing via fibers/coroutines. It also has a range multi-threaded modules (HTTP Server, GRPC and process pools) as well as support for popular PHP clients, like PDO MySQL, Redis and CURL. You can use the fiber API, coroutine or sync API to create applications. Swoole increases the efficiency of PHP applications, and allows you to move away from the traditional stateless model.
  • 7
    FuelPHP Reviews
    Fuel PHP is a fast and flexible PHP 5.4+ Framework, born out of the best ideas from other frameworks. It's a new start. The framework was developed in response to frustrations with existing frameworks. It is supported by a developer community. FuelPHP is a highly portable framework that works on virtually any server and boasts a clean syntax. FuelPHP was built from the ground up with full support for HMVC. We didn't stop here, we added ViewModels to the mix (also known by the name presentation models), which gives you the ability to add a powerful level between the controller and view. FuelPHP supports a router-based approach, where you can route directly to a closing which deals with the input URI. This closure becomes the controller and controls the further execution.
  • 8
    PHPixie Reviews
    PHPixie is simple to use and does not rely upon automatic. You will always be in control of what happens. Since its first release, PHPixie has been designed for speed. Independent benchmarks have proven this. Components that can be used independently of the framework were used to build this application. Low coupling, linear execution flow, and no static code. Composer allows you to reuse and share your code as self-contained packages. Event use is avoided, so you'll never be in a hell of events again. Database components are ready to use with MongoDB. Designed from the ground up according to SOLID and industry standards. PHPixie began as a micro-framework and has grown to become one of the most popular PHP frameworks, while maintaining its high performance. This is partly due to the strict architecture which avoids common pitfalls like reliance on static method, global scope, onetons, and other antipatterns.
  • 9
    Fat-Free Framework Reviews

    Fat-Free Framework

    Fat-Free Framework

    Free
    Speed up your development process. F3 is fast, lightweight, and easy to use. It doesn't get you in the way. It has a gradual learning curve, so you can save money on training costs. F3 is a great tool for beginners and experts alike. F3 does not require complex configuration or unnecessary installation procedures. A powerful, yet easy-to use PHP micro-framework that helps you build dynamic and robust websites. Easy to learn, full-featured toolkit with a code base of just 90kb. Take advantage of built-in features. Create apps that rock. F3 provides a solid base, mature code, and a no nonsense approach to developing web applications. The web development toolkit is easy to use, has a high-performance URL router, a multiprotocol caching engine, code highlighting and supports multilingual i18n apps.
  • 10
    Pop PHP Framework Reviews

    Pop PHP Framework

    Pop PHP Framework

    Free
    Pop PHP is a PHP object-oriented framework that was first released in 2009 as a small component library. Pop's main goal is to provide lightweight tools that can help developers develop applications quickly. Pop is designed to be easy to learn and help developers quickly implement the features that they need in their applications. The Pop PHP Framework is a collection of core components, plus an additional 30+ components. It's a toolkit that helps developers create applications quickly. The framework has a set of core components and a number of additional components that facilitate many of the features common to a PHP application. The Pop PHP Framework is designed to be easy to install and use by anyone, from a novice programmer to an experienced developer.
  • 11
    Symfony Reviews

    Symfony

    Symfony SAS

    Free
    Symfony consists of PHP Components and a Web Application Framework. It also includes a Philosophy and a Community. The leading PHP framework for creating websites and web applications. Built on top the Symfony Components. The best PHP applications, such as Drupal Prestashop and Laravel, are built on a set of decoupled, reusable components. Over 600,000 developers in more than 120 countries are passionately committed to PHP and its mission. Adopting and promoting professionalism and best practices. Standardization and interoperability are also promoted.
  • 12
    Enhance Reviews
    Enhance comes with everything you need to create a production-ready application. Organize pages as easily as you would a desktop folder. JavaScript functions make it easy to access and store data. Create reusable components using HTML and CSS scoped. Add client-side interactivity where you need it. Build custom elements that can be seamlessly upgraded to interactive web components. Enhance makes it easy to do things the right way. Start with a universal version. From there, upgrade interactive elements incrementally. The web platform is always up to date and has all the features you need. By removing the framework bloat, you can eliminate throbbers or loading screens and only write what you need. You'll learn development techniques that will last for as long as the internet. Enhance apps were designed with deployment in the forefront. Begin is the perfect tool for when you're ready.
  • 13
    CodeIgniter Reviews
    CodeIgniter is an Application Development Framework, a toolkit for those who use PHP to build websites. It aims to make it easier to create projects faster than if you were to write code from scratch. CodeIgniter allows you to focus creatively on your project by minimizing the code required for a given task. CodeIgniter is as flexible as possible. This allows you to work as you wish and not be forced to. You can easily extend or replace core components of the framework to make it work the way that you want. CodeIgniter, in short, is a flexible framework that provides the tools you need and keeps you out of the way.
  • 14
    Slim Framework Reviews
    Slim is a great tool for creating APIs that consume data, repurpose it, or publish it. Slim is a great tool to create rapid prototypes. You can even create full-featured web apps with user interfaces. Slim is also super fast and requires very little code. You don't need to use a solution that has everything like Symfony and Laravel. These are excellent tools, no doubt. They are often overkill. Slim offers a minimal set that does exactly what you need. You will need a webserver like Nginx, Apache or similar. Slim apps contain routes that respond to HTTP requests. Each route calls a callback, and returns an HTTP reply. To get started you must first configure and instantiate the Slim application. Next, you define your application routes.
  • 15
    Laminas Reviews

    Laminas

    Zend Framework

    Laminas, the enterprise-ready PHP Framework and Components, is a framework and components that are ready for business. Components include dependency injection, input validation, input filtering, pagination, navigation, feed generation, and more. Build PHP middleware apps using the PSR-7/PSR-15 specifications. Use a variety routing and template options and the dependency container of your choice. Build RESTful APIs with standards, and get validation, authentication and authorization right out of box. PHP 7 ready, with a proven track record of running high-usage and business-critical applications. Laminas was built using security best practices. Store passwords, and encrypt them with AES-256. Laminas is up to four times faster than previous versions. Laminas API Tools provide JSON representations which can be parsed in any mobile framework.
  • Previous
  • You're on page 1
  • Next