The document outlines the top 12 PHP frameworks of 2016, highlighting their key features and benefits. Frameworks discussed include Yii for easy installation, Laravel for RESTful routing, Symfony for scalability, and CakePHP for its CRUD capabilities, among others. It emphasizes the importance of choosing the right framework based on project requirements and mentions helpful resources for hiring developers.

1. Top 12 PHP Frameworks 2016

2. Yii Framework
● This framework is known for its easy installation and can be easily
extended.
● PHP integrates with CodeCeption which is a popular testing framework.
This enables faster application development and testing

3. Laravel
● The framework comes with RESTful routing and some brilliant features for
development. It also includes native PHP or lightweight tempting. The framework
provides a solid foundation for web application development

4. Symfony
● Symfony is quite a scalable and a powerful PHP framework. The framework helps
in faster creation of a web application, along with its simplified maintenance. It
provides the benefit of components like Templating, Translation, Validator, Form
Config and more.

5. Cake PHP
● This is one of the easiest PHP frameworks to learn. The CRUD feature is one of
the most popular aspect of this framework - ‘create, read, update and delete’.
Some of its other intrinsic features include- session, cookie, request handling, e-
mail and security.

6. Zend Framework
● This is a very popular and a fully featured PHP framework. The version 2 of this
framework is now available, with new improvements. It is easy to learn and also
provides online training programmes.
● The USP of this framework is the consistency in design and an object oriented
programming.

7. Phalcon
● Speed is the USP of this popular PHP framework. The framework uses
lesser memory and the time request is much faster than other PHP
frameworks.

8. Kohana
● Kohana was built with PHP OOP in mind and provides the benefits of visibility
protection, abstracts, automatic class loading, interfaces, overloading and
singletons.
● The framework can be used if one has a minimum of PHP 5 version.

9. Flight
● This is a micro-framework and quite extensible as well. The documentation of
this framework is simple and one can easily learn it. The framework is not
recommended for larger web application projects, as it is relatively simpler.

10. Fuel PHP
● A PHP framework written in PHP5.3, it uses a Cascading File Effect. Its
key benefits include- RESTful implementation, HMVC implementation, URL
routing system, form and data validation, vulnerability protection and
caching system.

11. Zikula
● This framework is based on Symfony and Doctrine. The framework is
suitable for all kinds of big and small projects. The Framework provides the
advantage of being integrated with Font Awesome 4 and Bootstrap 3.
● The framework comes with a flexible theme system, ModuleStudio, chat
and document creator galleries. The platform is an open source one and is
absolutely free.

12. Fat Free
● This another simplified and popular PHP framework. It weighs less than
50KB and considered amongst the lightweight PHP frameworks. The main
features of URL router, multilingual application support and cache engine
have been used for the creation of this powerful framework.
● The framework boasts of a variety of plugins, a powerful queue library, an
amazing ORM, painless routing and a simple authentication. The
framework has been built using Symfony components.

13. CodeIgnitor
● Currently available in its version 2.2.1, Codeigniter comes with simplified
documentation. Some of the key features of this PHP framework include:
nearly zero configuration, no large-scale monolithic libraries, compatibility
with standard hosting, no restrictive coding rules, no need for template
language etc.

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