PHP Frameworks: Get MVC (and more) to work for you

Posted by Anuj Seth

November 5, 2008

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PHP is a widely used general purpose scripting language that is well suited for web development.

There are several frameworks that have been developed for PHP, to aid you in your application development. Several frameworks like CakePHP and CodeIgniter provide a framework around the popular MVC architecture.

An example of a PHP application developed using CodeIgniter is KapNuz (shameless plug!)

Performance achieved from these frameworks depend a lot on the kind of application that you are developing. I wouldn’t say that one of them stands out entirely from the others. Typically, you would select one and stick to it across your projects. No one wants to go thru a learning curve again and again for such frameworks. But, these frameworks are a great help in organizing your code and I would strongly recommend that you use one in your projects.

The primary reason for using these frameworks is to help you separate your presentation logic from your business logic. This goes a long way in helping you maintain your code.

PHP Frameworks is a website dedicated to the comparison of most of the available PHP frameworks. Click on the image below for a larger size image that would be clearer to read.