PHP frameworks provide basic functionality and an architecture for building projects. They promote code reuse and speed up development by reducing overhead code needed for tasks like database access, authentication, and validation. While frameworks have learning curves and performance costs, they make code easier to maintain. Popular PHP frameworks include Yii, CodeIgniter, Symfony, Laravel, and CakePHP, with each having their own strengths for different project needs and team sizes. Frameworks help developers build clean, reusable code by enforcing separation of logic and presentation using patterns like MVC.

1. PHP Frameworks
Prateek Bhojak
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2. What Are They?
• Add basic functionality
• Provide an architecture in which to create your
project
o Necessarily extensible

3. Who Cares? (Pros)
• Promotes code reuse
• Speed up the coding process by reducing the amount
of “overhead” code to write, such as:
o Database access
o Authentication and session management
o Data validation and sanitation
o URL mapping and management
o Security
• Code is easier to maintain within an architecture

4. Cons
• Fairly steep learning curve
• Slower than pure PHP
• Too many to choose from

5. MVC
Architectural pattern, separates code by function/purpose.
- Model - Representation of Information/Data
- Controller - (Business) Logic
- View - Output, HTML, javascript..

6. Top PHP Frameworks
1. Yii
2. CodeIgniter
3. Symfony
4. Laravel
5. CakePHP
6. Zend
7. Phalcon
8. Some more like (Slim,ZooP,QPHP)

7. Use of Frameworks in 2013

8. In-depth Comparisons

9. Yii
• Yii is the most solid PHP framework
o Fast
o loads the features that you need
o Powerful caching support
o Explicitly designed to work efficiently with AJAX
o Secure
o Input validation
o Output filtering
o SQL injection and Cross-site scripting prevention
o Professional
o Helps you develop clean and reusable code
o Follows the MVC pattern
o Ensuring a clear separation of logic and presentation

10. CodeIgniter
• Its very powerful framework in PHP simple and elegant
toolkit to create full-featured web applications.
• Exceptional performance.
• Nearly zero configuration.
• Easy to Understand
• Simple solutions to complexity.
• Most Light – weighted.

11. Symfony
• Symfony created in 2005 a very powerful MVC
Framework, Drupal the most popular Open-Source
CMS uses Symfony components
• Faster
• Unlimited flexiblity
• Stable and sustainable
• A driver of innovation
• Interoperable
• Hard to Learn
• Highly configurable
• Ideal for mid- to large-sized teams
Not for individuals

12. Laravel
• Larvael is very fast growing PHP Framework and very
easy to learn and use.
– I think this is just about the easiest framework to get into
– Great routing system that replaces controllers (but controllers can be used too)
– Easy to use migrations (database creation/updating)
– Easy to use out-of-the-box authentication and validation
– It's new, VERY new.
– If you try to figure out why something's not working, you'll probably land on
documentation that won't help you.
– Small community

13. CakePHP
CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP
which uses commonly known design patterns like
Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC.
• Build Quickly
• Not much Configuration
• Clean MVC Conventions
• Secure

14. Zend
• Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented
best practices, leading provider of software
and services for developing, deploying and managing
business-critical applications in PHP
• Integrates with other frameworks
• Great support structure
• Ideal for mid-sized dev teams
• Handles complex business logic
• Easy to port code to

15. Phalcon
• Phalcon PHP is “the next big thing” in PHP
frameworks.
• It has a really densely-featured framework and written
the entire source in C and packaged it as a PHP
extension which makes it incredibly faster

16. Feature Comparison of some
frameworks

17. So why use a framework?
• Less typing
• Reusable, helpful methods
• Most frameworks have (some) built-in security
• Get a job!

18. 5.3 vs 5.4

30. How to handle Magic_qoutes
Data should be escaped where you need it escaped, and for the domain in
which it will be used. (mysql_real_escape_string -- NOT addslashes! --
for MySQL (and that's only unless you have a clue and use prepared
statements), htmlentities or htmlspecialchars for HTML, etc.), but
mysql_real_escape_string has been deprecated in 5.5 and will be removed
in 5.6. Instead, the MySQLi or PDO_MySQL extension should be used,
but there is plenty of time to get 5.6 in flow, As its stable version is not
released yet.
• You need to handle all inputs and escape it.
Function check_input($value)
{
if (!is_numeric($value))
{
$value = mysql_real_escape_string($value);
}
return $value;
}

31. Thank You