What's the best framework is one of the hot discussion on linked in. Ruby has Rails, PHP has many, Symfony2 it's a good one, mostly used in Europe, the community is nice, but the founder Fabien Potencier is not very friendly, before come to NYC, at the Italian PHP Day I asked him if they was hiring, he's answer was "we hire only people who speak French" ...
Kohana is based on Code Igniter, a good choice but the community is way smaller than Code Igniter, here in NYC many agencies goes for Yii, Zend is one of the best solution, hope the PHP 5 version will improve the performances, which were the biggest issue of it. Keep in consideration also to use a CMF like Drupal, one of the best solution, many NYC agencies chose it, so is also a good skill to add in your resume, if you're searching for job. As last, I'd like to mention the RainFramework, it's easy, lightweight and fast, so if you searching for great performances it's worth a try Sent from my iPhone On Sep 14, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Rob Marscher <rmarsc...@beaffinitive.com> wrote: >> On Sep 14, 2011, at 5:42 AM, Bruce Martin wrote: >>> This may be controversial but I would like to know what the conceived top 5 >>> PHP frameworks are. You don't have to list why, just an order from most >>> popular, i.e. there is more demand for developers with experience using the >>> framework. The reason I ask, is I have just spent a year working with >>> CakePhp, which has it's benefits, but I have also seem some flaws with it. >>> So when I'm ready to move on, I would like to go in the direction of flow >>> in the industry. > >> From what I've seen around the community, the most popular seem to be > > Zend > Symfony > Cake > CodeIgniter > > I've also seen a number of people using Yii/Prado as well as Vork. > > Personally, I'm using Lithium. > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation