Frameworks

Codeigniter

CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is an Application Development Framework – a tool-kit – 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. CodeIgniter is loosely based on the popular Model-View-Controller development pattern. While view and controller classes are a necessary part of development under CodeIgniter, models are optional
CodeIgniter is most often noted for its speed when compared to other PHP frameworks. Unlike other PHP platforms, CodeIgniter comes with a library of set commands for common functionalities. These set codes can be easily accessed and used, which in turn reduces the development time considerably.It is pre developed meaning that the codes for the frequently used tasks are already stored as a set of commands. These are stored in libraries that are easily accessible to the developer. In fact, the interface through which these codes are available is also very easy to comprehend.
Codeigniter framework is not only popular but is extensively used in this industry. Thus, you can easily find a lot of resources who are skilled as well as very talented to work on any PHP web development project with this comprehensive framework.

CakePHP

CakePHP

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, 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.
Creating web pages is easy and we give full control over the look and feel of your website, so that you can have the look that’s right for your business.There are certain frameworks which are powerful and feature-rich owing to the very nature of the same, and Cake PHP happens to be one of them.One of the chief attractions of Cake PHP is that this framework is really simple to use, even for the novice developers.
A highly advanced Content Management System, CakePHP has emerged as an extremely successful open source web development technique which espouses to take your on-line business a notch higher by developing websites which are sure to stand out in the crowd. CakePHP is an open source web application framework. It follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) approach and is written in PHP, modelled after the concepts of Ruby on Rails, and distributed under the MIT License.

Zend

Zend

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