PHP Frameworks – So… many

In the older days, there used to be PHP4, which is responsible for producing so many developers writing so much of procedural code that despite PHP5 being around for several years, we still see people going back to PHP4 in the form of frameworks such as CodeIgniter.

I think PHP is the only scripting language that can boast of the largest number of frameworks. Every other day, literally, a new one comes up. The numbers have gone to the extent that now we have sites comparing PHP frameworks and listing top 10 PHP frameworks.

Originally, the credit should go to .NET Framework to trigger the birth of large number of PHP frameworks, which in spirit is what Open Source is all about. You come with a better idea and there you go with a new framework. Then there are other factors to conceptualize the birth of a new framework such as performance, size, toolkit, ease of use, speed to build, ajax, coding style and so on.