Symfony Alternatives

CakePHP is a free and open source web framework for the programming language PHP. With CakePHP you can with ease, develop, deploy and maintain web applcations. CakePHP provides a sound structure that allow you to create organized applications that can scale and adapt as your project grows. Out of the box, CakePHP provides features like bake script, a rich query API, short RL syntax, database support for MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle and more. It also includes features that make you app easier to develop such as automatic code generation, database migrations, fast and flexible templating language, and localization.

Zend Framework is a web application framework written in PHP that has an open architecture based on middleware or MVC which follows PHP-FIG standards. The framework is designed to follow the best security practices and stores passwords using bcrypt and encrypts data with AES-256. Zend Framework consists of multiple PHP packages that are designed to run separately or work interchangeably together. With Zend Framework you can develop web applications and services using PHP 5.6+, while writing 100% object-oriented code, broad spectrum of PHP specific features.

Laravel is an extremely popular, free and open source web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. The framework is written in PHP and provides a developer experience that rival most web application frameworks on the market today. The structure and built-in features of Laravel allows developers to build web applications faster. Instead of setting up tooling and configuring settings, developers can focus on the important task at hand, making their ideas into reality.

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with an extremly small footpring. The framework is built from the ground up to aid developers that want to build structured, secure and scalable web applications written in PHP. CodeIgniter is designed and developed at EllisLab and released as free and open source software under the MIT License.

FuelPHP is a MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework that was designed from the ground up to build scalable web applications written in PHP. Out-of-the-box, FuelPHP supports HVMC as a part of its arcitecture. The Hierarchical-Model-View-Controller (HMVC) pattern is a direct extension to the MVC pattern that manages to solve many of the scalability issues when building applications. HMVC is a collection of traditional MVC triads operating as one application. Each triad is completely independent and can execute without the presence of any other. All requests made to triads must use the controller interface, never loading models or libraries outside of their own domain. FuelPHP is released as a free and open source framework under the MIT License and can be used for commercial and personal projects alike.

Yii is a fast, secure, and efficient framework written in PHP. The framework is flexible yet pragmatic and works right out of the box with resanable defaults. With the Yii framework you can write more code in less time with simple with a powerful APIs and that include terminal commands for code generation for quick skaffolding. Yii is released as free and open source software under the liberal MIT License.

PHP Microsite Boilerplate is a PHP framework to create simple, yet strongly functional, fast, and secure websites on basically every environment. PHP Microsite Boilerplate provides a simple starting block without installation of multiple dependencies and exhausting setup and configuration process. Allowing people to focus on building their website and simply host on cheap share hosting, cloud instances and hardware.

RedwoodJS is a free and open-source fullstack JavaScript framework for the JAM stack. The framework is highly opinionated and utilize the best practises for building fullstack web applications with React, GraphQL, Prisma and relational databases. Redwood is designed to be deployable completely to the Edge via CDNs and serverless functions distributed everywhere. The structure and tools provided by RedwoodJS let's you get up and running quickly, so that you can see your application go from idea to reality.

Django is a high-level Python web development framework used for building web application at scale with speed. The framework adhere to a clean and pragmatic design that lets developers develop rapidly. Django ships as a "batteries included" framework and contains many of the features needed for most web applications such as an admin panel, an ORM and templating language. It takes much of the hassle out of web development and lets developers focus on writing their application instead of focusing on authentication, authorization and security.

Flask is a micro framework framework written in Python that can be used to build APIs, web services and web applications. Flask is designed from the bottom up to be extremely minimal and easy to use, where your whole application can fit into one single Python file. The framework includes no database abstraction layer, form validation, or any other components, by design. However pre-existing third-party libraries provide common functionality needed to build production ready applications and services.

CherryPy is a free and open-source object-oriented HTTP and web framework written in Python. CherryPy allows developer to build web application the same way they would build any other object-oriented program. The design of CherryPy result in a simpler and faster development experience with more readable code. CherryPy is distributed under a BSD license and loved by many Python web developers.