PHP MVC Framework Suggestions

t1mm

Hello all,

I've come to the conclusion that re-inventing the wheel every time I put together a site is a bit of a drain on time, and I reckon having experience with a MVC framework would render me more attractive in the eyes of employers.

I'd like to stick to PHP as I like its portability, and I would be mainly using the framework for relatively lightweight websites with no massive traffic.

Bear in mind that I'm not new to programming - I've just never used such a framework before.

CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Symfony - which would you recommend, and why?

Webmonkey

I used CakePHP and thought it was excellent.

It enforces you to stick to use the MVC pattern. Basically it enforces good conventions and prevents you from being sloppy. Least they were my impressions.

In a few days you are flying with CakePHP. The documentation is good too.

I can't compare to other frameworks as this was the only one I used.

fasty

I picked CakePHP because I liked it's active record style ORM a lot. It reminded me of Ruby On Rails I didn't look at Symphony but Code Igniter didn't have any ORM at all.

I originally used CakePHP to do my own personal site, but I've since switched to ASP.Net MVC 2. I was using CakePHP for a commerical site until they went bust! Not because of the site or anything! CakePHP was a joy to deal with.

I don't have much more to add than that, I only use PHP when doing the odd bit of freelancing.

Sparks

If your application fits into the MVC model, most of the frameworks work quite well - Cake is excellent (and nicely documented) and Symfony was very impressive last I looked at it.

I did find though that if your application has to be shoehorned into MVC, the frameworks never really seem to gel properly. About the best I could come up with for a non-MVC app was Prado and even that wasn't quite as snug a fit as I'd have liked.

adm

I'm currently looking at Kohana and really like it.
its actually HMVC - they link to a nice article on their site to explain what the H is.