Best PHP Framework

[Colin-Roberts]

I'm looking for a light weight php framework to use for my new site.

[Dentafrice]

People will disagree but I've always loved CakePHP and CodeIgniter.. I felt that Zend FW was a little too bulky when I used to for smaller projects... but CakePHP and CodeIgniter are both great FWs in my opinion.

- Mingle

[Source]

CI is just great, zend is exactly how Caleb said... bloated and just generally messy. Unfortunately, I'm working on a client site at the moment which is based on Zend... and it just makes me want to cry every time I have to do anything simple as it turns into the most complex of jobs. That however is probably down to the awful way the original coders developed it

[Dentafrice]

Matt3333 :]

Yeah, like he said... the simplest of things can be a nightmare in Zend, but it works the opposite too... sometimes some of the most complex and time consuming things can end up being easy...

But for your average user... CI is GREAT. Takes a little getting used to, and cool thing is you can omit model from the MVC.. and just use Controllers and Views... if you don't want to adhere to the normal MVC structure.

CI