Empirical Study of Most Popular PHP Framework

There have been several PHP frameworks for developers to pick from in the latest years. Developers face problems choosing the most relevant frameworks and appropriate support functions to include in their project. For this reason, a clear understanding of the various frameworks is now becoming an important necessity for web developers. In this paper, we collected several research papers talking about different PHP frameworks, and we compared them with each other in several ways which are: Request per second, Memory usage, Response time and, Number of files using several PHP frameworks: Laravel, CakePHP, Codeigniter, symfony2, Phalcon, Symfony, and Yii. the Laravel outperforms other MVC framework in request per second, memory usage. On the other hand, phalcon outperforms other MVC frameworks in response time and number of files.