PHP Framework for web development with pros and cons

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  • Symfony

    The Symfony PHP framework

  • Symfony is highly flexible. It features a bundle and component system that enables you to cherry-pick the PHP functions you need, or simply use the entire framework. the framework also includes built-in testing functionality. However, applications built using Symfony often don’t have the best performance as well as the framework has offered a very steep learning curve

  • 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 an open-source PHP framework, which is robust and easy to understand. It follows a model-view-controller design pattern. Laravel reuses the existing components of different frameworks which helps in creating a web application. The web application thus designed is more structured and pragmatic.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • CodeIgniter

    Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)

  • CodeIgniter is a commanding PHP framework. If we consider web applications with advanced features, then to create such an application Code igniter is one of the efficient PHP Frameworks. As it makes web applications always ready, learning becomes easier.

  • CakePHP

    CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository

  • CakePHP was the first PHP MVC framework to hit the market. CakePHP has improved in performance over time and added lots of new components. However, where CakePHP really shines is in the way it approaches convention in coding.

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