PHP frameworks in 2018 and Why i chose Laravel

PHP is the most popular server-side scripting language for developing Web applications or dynamic websites. PHP has great HTML and Database interactions. Compare to other languages, It is very simple to use. PHP has great frameworks for developing great and secure web applications.

Here I am introducing some frameworks of PHP

1. Laravel:


Laravel is the free open source PHP framework created by Taylor Otwell in 2011. This framework has many functions, the aim of which is to provide as fast development process as it is possible.

Laravel offers the following key features –

New directory structure – This new folder contains all language and template files.
Route caching – Route caching feature speeds up the application route registration
Authentication – Laravel 5 contains the ready to use inbuilt authentication system.
Multiple file system – Laravel 5 provides the native support for multiple file system
Unit testing is provided as an integral part of Laravel
Template engine
E-mailing

2. CodeIgniter:


CodeIgniter is an open source PHP framework used to develop a dynamic website. It can be easily installed and requires minimal user configuration. CodeIgniter contains libraries, simple interface and logical structure to access these libraries, plug-ins, helpers and some other resources which solve the complex functions of PHP more easily maintaining a high performance. A person using CodeIgniter must be familiar with PHP. You need to have a good knowledge of PHP like its basic syntax and how it interacts with database and HTML.

There are some basic features of Codeigniter –

Framework with a small Footprint
Very developer friendly (Doesn’t need any special dependencies or supports)
Good documentation and LTS (Long Term Support)
High Performance
Minimum Configuration
MVC is optional
Pagination
Search-engine Friendly URLs
Full Page Caching
Error Logging
Application Profiling
Calendaring Class
User Agent Class
Zip Encoding Class

3.Symfony:


Symfony is a very powerful PHP framework. Symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications and to replace repetitive coding tasks. If you aren’t familiar with MVC, you just need to understand that separating the code into three parts — the logic code (called the Model), the presentation code (the View), and the request handling code (the Controller). Symfony uses the Model-View-Controller design pattern, which separates the business logic from the presentation layer. You will get the detail idea about framework at Codekul – web development training institute in Pune.

4. Zend :


Zend is an open source web application framework. Zend framework contains a collection of PHP packages which can be used to develop web applications and services. Zend Framework provides users a support of the Model View Controller (MVC)

It includes the following features:

The pure object-oriented web application framework
Advanced MVC implementation
Supports multi-databases including PostgreSQL, SQLite etc.,
Simple cloud API
Session management
Data encryption
Ideal for enterprise applications
Tons of components for validation, feeds, and forms.

5. CakePHP :


CakePHP is a simple and easy open source framework for PHP. It is built in a MVC pattern along with the model class. Fast and secure web applications can be developed with very less code.

It includes the following features :

User-Friendly Tool
Safe and Secure
Extensive safekeeping tools include cross-site
Good Documentation
Scripting prevention and SQL Injection prevention
Clean MVC Conventions

Why I chose Laravel?


Laravel is a web framework that will make software delivery more streamlined. Laravel is a scalable PHP framework and below are some its features that impress us.

Authorization Technique

Unlike some frameworks, Laravel makes the implementation of authentication techniques very simple. Almost everything is configured excellently straight out-of-the-box. Laravel also provides a simple way to organize authorization logic and control access to resources.

Object-Oriented Libraries

One of the top reasons which make Laravel our favorite PHP framework is it has Object Oriented libraries and many other pre-installed options, which are not found in any other popular PHP frameworks. One of the pre-installed libraries is the Authentication library. Although it is easy to implement, it has many advanced features, such as checking active users, CSRF (Cross-site Request Forgery) protection, Bcrypt hashing, password reset, and encryption to name a few.

URL Routing Configuration

Users will utilize a web application by clicking or typing links. Each user will hope to see the desired content, for example, an article. If there is no URL routing, the web application will never understand what the user wants to see and may show a blank page or an error page instead.

All Laravel routes are defined in the app/Http/routes.php file, which is automatically loaded by the framework. The most basic Laravel routes simply accept a URI and a Closure, providing a very simple and expressive method of defining routes.

Scheduling Task Configuration and Management

Whether it’s necessary to send out emails to the subscribers each morning or automatic cleanup of the database tables at the end of the day, most web applications need a task scheduling mechanism to take care of the tasks, when it’s time.

The Laravel command scheduler allows developers to quickly define and command schedule within Laravel itself, and only a single Cron entry is needed on the server.

Artisan

Some frameworks require a developer to interact with the framework via the command line to create and handle project environments. Laravel offers a built-in tool named Artisan that allows developers to perform the majority of those repetitive and tedious programming tasks that most of the developers avoid performing manually.

Pagination

To build web applications and API services, the pagination feature is a great help for Laravel developers. It automatically paginates data from the database and saves developers time. This is one of the great features of Laravel.

MVC Support

Another reason which makes Laravel our favorite PHP framework is it supports MVC Architecture like Symfony, ensuring clarity between logic and presentation. MVC helps in improving the performance, allows better documentation, and has multiple built-in functionalities.

Security

Laravel takes handles security from within its framework. It uses salted and hashed password, which means that your password will never save as the plain text in the database. It uses Bcrypt hashing algorithm for generating an encrypted representation of a password. Laravel also uses prepared SQL statements which make injection attacks unimaginable.

Blade

The Blade templating engine of Laravel is very intuitive and helps to work with the PHP/HTML code so much better, that’s it one of the best features of the framework. If you ever have had to chop up a PHP if statement with HTML inside of it, you know exactly what we mean. But with the blade, it’s almost effortless.

Automatic Package Discovery

While installing packages in the earlier versions of Laravel wasn’t difficult, life has become a whole lot more simple since Laravel 5.5. Laravel 5.5 features Automatic Package Discovery which detects the packages automatically which users want to install. This means that users don’t have to set up any aliases or providers from installing new packages in Laravel. This feature can also be disabled for specific packages.

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