Top 10 PHP Frameworks

1: Yii
Yii is a component-based high-performance PHP framework for developing large-scale Web applications.
Yii is written in strict OOP and comes with thorough class reference and comprehensive tutorials.
From MVC,  DAO/ActiveRecord, widgets, caching, hierarchical RBAC, Web services, to  theming, I18N
and L10N, Yii provides nearly every feature needed by  today's Web 2.0 application development.
And all these come without  incurring much overhead. As a matter of fact, Yii is one of the most
efficient PHP frameworks around.

Official website http://www.yiiframework.com/
Download URL http://www.yiiframework.com/download/
Manual URL http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/

2: CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter is an Application Development Framework - a toolkit - for people who build web sites
using PHP. Its goal is to enable you to develop projects much faster than you could if you were
writing code from scratch, by providing a rich set of libraries for commonly needed tasks, as well
as a simple interface and logical structure to access these libraries. CodeIgniter lets you
creatively focus on your project by minimizing the amount of code needed for a given task.

Official website http://www.codeigniter.com/
Download URL http://codeigniter.com/download.php
Manual URL http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/

3: CakePHP
is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like Active
Record, Association Data Mapping, Front  Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a
structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications,
without any loss to flexibility.

Official website http://www.cakephp.org
Download URL http://cakephp.org/downloads 
Manual URL http://manual.cakephp.org/

4: Zend
Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best
practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is
focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and
consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr, as well as
API providers and cataloguers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb.

Expanding on these core themes, we have implemented Zend Framework to embody extreme simplicity &
productivity, the latest Web 2.0 features, simple corporate-friendly licensing, and an agile
well-tested code base that your enterprise can depend upon.

Official website http://framework.zend.com/home
Download URL http://framework.zend.com/download 
Manual URL http://framework.zend.com/manual/

5: symfony
Symfony is a web application framework for PHP5 projects.

It aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive
coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.

The very small number of prerequisites make symfony easy to install on any configuration; you just
need Unix or Windows with a web server and PHP 5 installed. It is compatible with almost every
database system. In addition, it has a very small overhead, so the benefits of the framework don't
come at the cost of an increase of hosting costs.

Using symfony is so natural and easy for people used to PHP and the design patterns of Internet
applications that the learning curve is reduced to less than a day. The clean design and code
readability will keep your delays short. Developers can apply agile development principles (such as
DRY, KISS or the XP philosophy) and focus on applicative logic without losing time to write endless
XML configuration files.

Symfony is aimed at building robust applications in an enterprise context. This means that you have
full control over the configuration: from the directory structure to the foreign libraries, almost
everything can be customized. To match your enterprise's development guidelines, symfony is bundled
with additional tools helping you to test, debug and document your project.

Last but not least, by choosing symfony you get the benefits of an active open-source community. It
is entirely free and published under the MIT license.

Symfony is sponsored by Sensio, a French Web Agency well known for its innovative views on web
development.

Official website http://www.symfony-project.com/
Download URL http://www.symfony-project.org/content/download
Manual URL http://www.symfony-project.org/doc/1_0/

6: PHPDevShell
PHPDevShell is an Open Source (GNU/LGPL) Rapid Application Development framework written using only
PHP with no Javascript and comes with a complete GUI admin interface. It is aimed at developing
admin based applications as plugins, where speed, security, stability and flexibility are essentials.
It is designed to have a very easy learning curve without complicated new terms to learn. The need
for a light, fully functional GUI with limitless configuration brought forward PHPDevShell. We
strive to keep direction and focus in our development according to our moto.

Official website http://www.phpdevshell.org/
Download URL http://www.phpdevshell.org/downloads/
Manual URL http://www.phpdevshell.org/beginning

7: Prado
The very original inspiration of PRADO came from Apache Tapestry. During the design and
implementation, I borrowed many ideas from Borland Delphi and Microsoft ASP.NET. The first version
of PRADO came out in June 2004 and was written in PHP 4. Driven by the Zend PHP 5 coding contest,
I rewrote PRADO in PHP 5, which proved to be a wise move, thanks to the new object model provided
by PHP 5. PRADO won the grand prize in the Zend contest, earning high votes both from the public
and from the judges' panel.

In August 2004, PRADO was hosted on SourceForge as an open source project. Soon after, the project
site xisc.com was announced to public. With the fantastic support of PRADO developer team and PRADO
users, PRADO evolved to version 2.0 in mid 2005. In this version, Wei Zhuo contributed to PRADO with
the excellent I18 and L10N support.

In May 2005, we decided to completely rewrite the PRADO framework to resolve a few fundamental issues
found in version 2.0 and to catch up with some cool features available in Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0.
After nearly a year's hard work with over 50,000 lines of new code, version 3.0 was finally made
available in April 2006.

Starting from version 3.0, significant efforts are allocated to ensure the quality and stability of
PRADO. If we say PRADO v2.x and v1.x are proof-of-concept work, we can say PRADO 3.x has grown up to
a serious project that is suitable for business application development.

Official website http://www.pradosoft.com/
Download URL http://www.pradosoft.com/download/
Manual URL http://www.pradosoft.com/documentation/

8: Akelos
The Akelos PHP Framework is a web application development platform based on the MVC (Model View
Controller) design pattern. Based on good practices, it allows you to:

    * Write views using Ajax easily
    * Control requests and responses through a controller
    * Manage internationalized applications
    * Communicate models and the database using simple conventions.

Your Akelos based applications can run on most shared hosting service providers since Akelos
only requires that PHP be available at the server. This means that the Akelos PHP Framework is
the ideal candidate for distributing standalone web applications as it does not require any
non-standard PHP configuration to run.

Official website http://www.akelos.org/
Download URL http://www.akelos.org/download
Manual URL http://www.akelos.org/docs

9: QPHP
QPHP stands for Quick PHP and is a MVC framework similar as architecture to ASP.NET.
I, as the author of the project, have spent the last 8 years working on web projects using various
Java frameworks, ASP.NET and PHP. This framework tries to get the best of the above platforms as
well as to avoid the problematic parts. Basically it:

	* Brings the elegance of Java and C#
	* Drops all Perl like bizzare statements that other PHP frameworks use
	* Relies extensively on OOP concepts

Code-behind approach is used, so every web page consists of 2 files:

	* .PHP - presentation logic
	* .PHP.SCRIPT - business/programming logic

Official website http://qphp.net/
Download URL http://qphp.net/download/
Manual URL http://qphp.net/docs/

10: Zoop
The Zoop Object Oriented Php Framework (The Zoop PHP Framework for short). A framework written in
and for php.

The Zoop PHP Framework is stable, scalable and portable. It has been in production use for the last
5 years and has been used in many production environments. The Zoop PHP Framework is designed to be
fast, efficient and clean. It is easily extendable and you choose to include only the functionality
you use.

With Zoop an inexperienced coder can make secure web applications quickly. A more experienced coder
will really appreciate how flexible The Zoop PHP Framework is. Both experienced and inexperienced
coders alike will appreciate the automations that are at his/her disposal to handle mundane tasks.

The Zoop PHP Framework encourages separation of display, logic and data layers(MVC).

The Zoop PHP Framework is made up of many components and integrates many different projects
including smarty (http://smarty.php.net) and the prototype AJAX framework. It also makes use of
PEAR modules (http://pear.php.net).   The efficient core components handle many of the functions
you would have to code yourselves. Zoop's integrated error handling can be configured to log errors
for production environments, and is highly informative and readable which makes bugs easy to find
and squash.

Zoop has been designed to make the developers life easier by providing tools to make efficient use
of his/her time. On of our more unique and notable features is our implementation of GuiControls,
a revolutionary idea in PHP  that provides many form widgets with validation completely integrated,
 as well as a framework to develop your own guiControls extremely easily.

Zoop Features
The Zoop framework features GuiControls (a PHP implementation of .net's webcontrols), AJAX support
and integration, automatic form validation and creation (including db integration), a Smarty
templating system, PDF creation, session handling, and SMTP template-based email sending, and
integrated caching.
Official website http://www.zoopframework.com/
Download URL http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=154726
Manual URL http://zoopframework.com/ss.4/6944/documentation.html