I want to try a PHP framework for a job that is coming up. It’s an online booking system and needs to fit into an existing web site and have it’s own admin system. So which PHP Framework to try? A quick google gave me dozens of articles on the subject and it quickly became clear that the leaders, at this point in time, come down to: CakePHP, CodeIgnition, Symfony and ZendFramework. There were others that sounded interesting (WACT provide a pretty full listing here, Wikipedia here) but many seem to be in the dreaming phase or have gone to sleep some months back. Others of possible note include Fusebox (for fans of ColdFusion), Prado or Seagull.
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