Frameworks

PHP Frameworks

This page is to act as a resource listing current, actively maintained PHP frameworks. If you were looking for more general information about the different types of framework available in PHP then you should look at: PHP The Right Way: Frameworks.

Want to add your framework to the list? Please make sure it meets our ragtag list of requirements first.

Full-Stack Frameworks

• CakePHP
• CodeIgniter
• FuelPHP
• Kohana
• Laravel
• Lithium
• Symfony
• Yii
• Zend Framework

Micro Frameworks

• Fat-Free
• Limonade
• MicroMVC
• Silex
• Slim

You can see a more complete list - including more history entries - on the two sites below:

• phpframeworks.com
• Uncyclopedia - PHP Frameworks

Requirements

• The framework must be considered "active"
• The framework must have a stable version released
• The latest stable version must be within the last 18 months
• The framework needs to be within the last three stable versions of PHP (i.e: now 5.4 is stable, no 5.1 frameworks are allowed)
• The framework needs 500 people watching it on GitHub or BitBucket
• The framework must have a website, with documentation

An optional rule is that any framework part of the PHP-FIG will automatically be put onto the list.

We will be policing this list now and then to make sure new listings meet the requirements, and to make sure projects have not expired. If a project gets marked as inactive then we're going to remove it.