Comes with rich features, co-opting the best from Rails. It is perfect for social networking and

reduces development time significantly.

Almost a micro-framework! Comes with lots of inbuilt functionality.

Most modular and extensible, as well as the most complete in

features.

Oldest of them all, it is popular as a legacy system. Difficulties

associated with making a switch.

Very clearly structured and well designed, it is a full stack framework with unlimited

possibilities.

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** Test conducted by http://systemsarchitect.net/performance-benchmark-of-popular-php-frameworks/

OOP = OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING • DAO = DATABASE ACTIVE OBJECT • MVC = MODEL-VIEW-CONTROLLER • CLI = COMMAND LINE INTERFAC • CSRF = CROSS SITE REQUEST FORGERY

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Reference:

• http://php.dzone.com/articles/top-5-php-frameworks• http://www.zfort.com/blog/top-5-php-frameworks-infographic/• http://www.sitepoint.com/best-php-frameworks-2014/• http://codegeekz.com/20-best-php-frameworks-developers-august-2014/• http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/php-frameworks-comparison• http://systemsarchitect.net/performance-benchmark-of-popular-php-frameworks/• http://systemsarchitect.net/is-phalcon-the-promised-land-for-php/• http://vschart.com/compare/yii/vs/codeigniter/vs/symfony/vs/cakephp/vs/phalconphp• https://www.pimcore.org/board/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=963

• http://thecelavi.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/stay-away-from-codeigniter/• http://www.slideshare.net/martinbuchmayr/zend-framework-design-patterns-profiling• http://www.enukesoftware.com/blog/assessing-the-top-5-php-frameworks-in-the-industry/• http://docs.phalconphp.com/en/latest/reference/security.html• http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/security.html• http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/codeigniter-from-scratch-security--net-12677• http://static.zend.com/topics/Webinar-Zend-Secure-Application-Development-with-the-Zend-Framework.pdf• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26114718/phalcon-do-we-have-smarty-template-engine-as-c-extension