Top 9 PHP Frameworks For Web Development In 2021

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  • Laravel

    Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

    Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks for web development with 64k+ stars on GitHub. Though it ranks 7 on PHP Benchmarks list of top-performing web development PHP frameworks, it tops our list given its huge community, rich feature set, and ease of use.

  • Symfony

    The Symfony PHP framework

    PHP Benchmarks rank Symfony at number 3 in the list of PHP frameworks for web development. With 24.5k+ GitHub stars, Symfony is not just a PHP web development framework but also provides a set of 50 stand-alone reusable PHP components for faster web app development. Using Symfony, you can develop web applications, microservices, and APIs too. With commercial support from SensioLabs, Symfony stands ahead of many on the list.

  • InfluxDB

    Access the most powerful time series database as a service. Ingest, store, & analyze all types of time series data in a fully-managed, purpose-built database. Keep data forever with low-cost storage and superior data compression.

  • CodeIgniter

    Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)

    CodeIgniter is a rapid web application development framework with a ridiculously small size. CodeIgniter 4, the latest version of CodeIgniter, is a mere 1.2 MB in size. Like Laravel, it’s open-source and boasts 18k+ stars on GitHub. Just because of how bare-bone it is, we have included it in the second position. Like several other frameworks, CodeIgniter provides a set of libraries and an intuitive interface to accelerate PHP web app development. Currently, this is not tracked by PHPbenchmarks.com but is considered among the best PHP frameworks for website development.

  • PHPT

    The PHP Interpreter

    With an average global salary of $39k, PHP is one of the most popular programming languages in the developer community. It’s the language behind the most popular CMS, WordPress. It is in-use by 79% of total websites globally, including the most used social network- Facebook, the largest digital encyclopedia – Wikipedia, China’s news giant Xinhuanet, and Russia’s social network VK.com.

  • Lumen

    The Laravel Lumen Framework.

    9. Lumen

  • CakePHP

    CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository

    6. CakePHP

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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