Top 5 PHP Frameworks You Should Know

The offshore application development scenario has transmuted into
frenzy due to the inception of PHP, a widely used open source scripting
language especially suited to the building of dynamic web pages.

PHP applications are generally found to be hosted on Linux servers
and the functionality is similar to Windows Platform by Active Server
Pages Technology.

PHP frameworks are ideally suited to the objective of increasing
programming efficiency.

Here we discuss the top 5 frameworks that are in vogue today.

1. Zend Framework: It is an open source, object oriented web application
development framework that can be implemented with PHP5.

Individual components to satisfy common requirements that arise in Offshore
Software Development are available in Zend. Also there is the motivation to
promote best practices in web application development in PHP.

2. Smarty Framework: It is also known as Template Engine
and basically is construed to provide simplified development and
deployment of web applications. Pure PHP Template Option and
Template Inheritance make this a useful tool.

3. CakePHP: It provides rapid web application development
and is an open source framework producing an extensive architecture
for development, maintenance and deployment of applications.
MVC and ORM common design patterns are used here reducing
development costs and coding efforts.

4. Symfony: It is a full-stack framework and provides architectural
components and development tools that help rapid building of
complex web applications. Supplementary tools provide testing,
debugging and documentation facilities. It is generally compliant
with web's "best practices" and "design patterns".

5. Pardo: It is a component based and event driven framework
aimed at providing rapid web programming. Pardo is constituted
of a specification file (XML), an HTML template and a PHP class.
It is easy to use, robust and provides tam integration.