The document compares five popular PHP frameworks: Laravel, Symfony, CakePHP, Phalcon, and Zend, highlighting their features, version requirements, and licensing. Laravel is noted as potentially the best option for web development projects due to its extensive capabilities, while each framework has unique strengths suited for different needs. The final choice ultimately depends on user preferences and project requirements.

1. Feature and Compare between PHP
Frameworks

2. Introduction
Choosing the best PHP framework for web app development is
not an easy task because there are many PHP frameworks that all
offer different type of web app development services. A PHP
development company which creates various frameworks
includes many interesting features that come helpful in website
development.
Top 5 PHP Frameworks-
• Laravel
• Symphony
• CakePHP
• Phalcon
• Zend Framework

3. Version Comparison among Top 5 PHP
frameworks
Laravel
• Latest stable version 5.6.24
• License use – MIT
• Platform requirement – PHP
7.0.0, Open SSL PHP extension,
XML PHP extension, mbstring
PHP framework

4. Symphony
• Latest stable version – 4.0.8
• License use – MIT
• Platform requirement - PHP
5.9.9

5. CakePHP
• Latest version – 3.6.5
• License use – MIT
• Platform requirement – PHP
5.6.0+

6. Phalcon
• Latest version – 3.3.1
• License use – BSD
• Platform requirement -
Linux, UX, Mac OS, Window
Phalcon

7. Zend Framework
• Latest version – 3.0.0
• License use – New BSD
license
• Platform requirement – PHP
7 , cross-platform

8. Features Comparison
Laravel
Laravel is a topmost framework that can deal with different databases.
Laravel could be the best choice for small to large website development
projects. The framework has the capability to manage authentication,
caching, and other assignments. In comparison to other frameworks, Laravel
Development Company offers much attractive features-
• Improvement in website logging system
• New Blade directives
• Artisan – a built-in tool
• Pre-installed libraries and modular
• MVC model
• New program for Single Server task
• Eloquent datacasting and password hashing( Argon2)

9. Symfony
Using Symfony you can have extensive experience. This framework comes
with several tasks such are configuration, authentication, and routing etc.
Moreover, this framework has real-time Symfony community which proves it
one of the top PHP frameworks. Few popular features of Symfony are-
• Rapid web app development
• Higher security features
• Easy flexibility and maintenance
• Extendable, readable and independent
• east integration with third-party libraries

10. CakePHP
In comparison to others frameworks, many website experts prefer CakePHP
development services to get a scalable website. Because this framework is
older than Laravel and still offers many extraordinary features. Some of that
are-
• Object-Relational-Mapping
• MVC-based model
• Expendable with plugins
• CRUD(Create, Read, Update, Delete)

11. Phalcon
Phalcon also comes with many extensive features so it should not be ignored
while comparing PHP frameworks. Phalcon adds some components such are
Routing, ORM, and controller etc. Features of Phalcon are-
• Fastest PHP framework
• Open-source and independent framework
• Templating engine service
• Less code for project implementation

12. Zend Framework
Zend is one of the most recommended frameworks for website development.
If we compare with other PHP frameworks it comes with lots of
opportunities. Some popular features of Zend are -
• Object-oriented framework
• Error handling services
• Use of dependency injection

13. Summary
If we find the best one among the above-discussed PHP
frameworks, Laravel might be the best choice. Besides,
all frameworks have its specialties so it depends on you
which one you would like for your web development
project.

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