Hi, all:
I'd like to start developing my applications with PHP. I think a good
framework would save costs, but I wonder which is the best one.
I've read Zend Framework is probably the most complete in terms of
functionality, but I've read as well it is quite slow in performance. On
the other hand, I've found a framework called Yii, which is presented
as an
"extremely fast PHP framework"; but I'm not sure it is as complete as I
need (with MVC, office and .pdf documents generation, with an easy
integration with mobile devices or SMS platforms, data encryption,
etc...).
I'd really appreciate any insight from all of you with experience in
these
frameworks (Yii and Zend).
Thanks a lot in advance.
If performance first
best one is PHP
then check this
http://talks.php.net/show/drupal08/0
Personally, I wouldn't give too much about performance. PHP Runtime isn't most times the bottleneck with web applications. I intend to stick with the ones who really are tight with PHP development itself and that would be Zend, though.
If for some reason, performance is your first priority, I've seen Benchmarks around showing that CodeIgniter kicks off, but is written in php4.
If you haven't much time reading docs and stuff, cakePHP is your choice.
You see, this question isnt easy and if you ask google, nobody in the world knows more than personal intended reasons to use a specific Framework. Lots of people say that you got to try all of them to always know which one to use in your specific situation of development requirements. It's the same with programming languages itself, actually.