Re: The best PHP framework?

 >  > Hi, all:
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 >  >
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 >  > I'd like to start developing my applications with PHP. I think a good
 >
 >  > framework would save costs, but I wonder which is the best one.
 >
 >  >
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 >  > I've read Zend Framework is probably the most complete in terms of
 >
 >  > functionality, but I've read as well it is quite slow in 
performance. On
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 >  > the other hand, I've found a framework called Yii, which is presented
 > as an
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 >  > "extremely fast PHP framework"; but I'm not sure it is as complete 
as I
 >
 >  > need (with MVC, office and .pdf documents generation, with an easy
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 >  > integration with mobile devices or SMS platforms, data encryption,
 > etc...).
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 >  >
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 >  > I'd really appreciate any insight from all of you with experience in
 > these
 >
 >  > frameworks (Yii and Zend).
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 >  >
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 >  > Thanks a lot in advance.
 >
 > If performance first
 >
 > best one is PHP
 >
 > then check this
 >
 > http://talks.php.net/show/drupal08/0
 >

Personally, I wouldn't give too much about performance. PHP Runtime 
isn't most times the bottleneck with web applications. I intend to stick 
with the ones who really are tight with PHP development itself and that 
would be Zend, though.

If for some reason, performance is your first priority, I've seen 
Benchmarks around showing that CodeIgniter kicks off, but is written in 
php4.

If you haven't much time reading docs and stuff, cakePHP is your choice.

You see, this question isnt easy and if you ask google, nobody in the 
world knows more than personal intended reasons to use a specific 
Framework. Lots of people say that you got to try all of them to always 
know which one to use in your specific situation of development 
requirements. It's the same with programming languages itself, actually.