PHP Frameworks in Web Application Development

Abstract

: A framework defined as a structure that supports the development of dynamic websites, web applications, and services. Framework code and design are often reusable to assist resource management, customization and API-related tasks. This study discusses current practices to help a developer understand PHP frameworks adoption for web application development. The systematic approach, score criteria evaluation, and PHP framework technical factors are studied to understand the features suitability of PHP Frameworks. A comparison of twenty-three different frameworks features also has been studied that involves features such as Object Relational Mapping(ORM), Code Generator,CRUD Generator and Template Engine. Besides PHP framework features, understanding the basic core PHP to build web application would help a lot in learning PHP frameworks. Moreover, new aspiring developers should not limit themselves to a particular PHP framework only but also explore various other PHP frameworks in the development of web application projects as the key features in each framework may vary a bit .