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[Gilbert Diaz]

I just want to say hi;

I'm Gilbert and I'm a Web Application Developer student at Lipscomb University. I'm in my junior year and this Fall 2015 I'll have my PHP class. I join the group to learn from the experts and hopefully grow as a developer. My expectations with PHP are great and hopefully I can learn and master PHP. Probably I can be helping others a year from now through this media. Actually I have a question about a PHP framework.  Which framework I should start learning Phalcon, Laravel, or Symphony?

[Ben Ramsey]

Welcome, Gilbert!

I'm interested in hearing about the PHP class at Lipscomb. I didn't know they offered one, and I rarely hear about universities offering web programming classes, so it would be great to hear about your experiences in it.

As for frameworks, my advice is to take at look at the "getting started" guides of a few frameworks and then pick the framework that feels best for you. All modern PHP frameworks are fast and solve similar problems, so the choice of which to use is a matter of personal preference.

Here are a few you might consider: Symfony, Silex, Slim, Laravel, Zend Framework, and Aura.

As for Phalcon, it's a viable choice, but it uses a PHP extension. Extensions are written in C, compiled, and then included in your running installation of PHP. As a result, it may be a little more difficult to set up and configure, depending on where you're running PHP (locally, shared server, dedicated server, etc.).

Best of luck, and let us know what framework you choose and why.

Cheers,
Ben

[James Miller]

I’d recommend Symfony or Laravel.

[Luis Cordova]

Laravel is the popular, more geared towards beginners though sometimes derided by the top experts.

Symfony is not as popular as Laravel but it is more enterprise java like. It is the one recommended though you should never marry it.

Phalcon is for when you are looking for performance since it is a c-extension.

My advice is to learn to develop and not the framework. Pick any and just learn it, but marry development not a framework.

[Bryan Dease]

I would 100% disagree on saying that Laravel is "more geared towards beginners." I've been developing PHP apps for 12 years and use Laravel on a daily basis (my choice).  Just taking a look at the source code of the framework itself would debunk that idea.  I think it's probably more "approachable" if you are not really familiar with how frameworks are used but it's definitely not a "beginner" framework. Typically these kinds of statements are from people who haven't really used the framework for building robust applications and report what people post in Reddit. 

Luis Cordova

August 24, 2015 at 8:57 AM

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James Miller

August 23, 2015 at 9:52 PM

I’d recommend Symfony or Laravel.

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Gilbert Diaz

August 21, 2015 at 9:01 PM

I just want to say hi;

I'm Gilbert and I'm a Web Application Developer student at Lipscomb University. I'm in my junior year and this Fall 2015 I'll have my PHP class. I join the group to learn from the experts and hopefully grow as a developer. My expectations with PHP are great and hopefully I can learn and master PHP. Probably I can be helping others a year from now through this media. Actually I have a question about a PHP framework.  Which framework I should start learning Phalcon, Laravel, or Symphony?

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