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Top 10 PHP Framework Compared

Framework
PHP4
PHP5
MVC
Multiple DB’s
ORM
DB Objects
Templates
Caching
Validation
Ajax
Auth Module
Modules

Zend Framework
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CakePHP

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Symfony Project
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Seagull Framework

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WACT

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Prado
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PHP on TRAX
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ZooP Framework

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eZ Components
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CodeIgniter

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Jargon:

MVC: Model View Controller more…
ORM: Object Relational Mapping more…

Java increasingly threatened by new app dev frameworks

Is Java slipping into second-tier status in the application development space? All the attention being given to its rivals these days might give off that impression.

Nearly 13 years old, the Java language and platform created at Sun Microsystems now shares the software development limelight with scripting languages such as PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) and Ruby, as [...]

Is PHP ready for enterprise?

It’s been an interesting few months for Zend, the commercial company behind the open source programming language PHP.
In the past few weeks, Zend has teamed up with Rackspace, a leading web hosting provider. It’s also signed an agreement with Ibuildings, an Anglo-Dutch software consultancy company, to provide training and support services in the UK. And [...]

Microsoft launches student Java and LAMP challenge

University computer science departments are rapidly becoming Microsoft-free zones, as Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) combine with Java to become the de-facto standard environment for students of programming.
Microsoft knows from history that this will be fatal in the long term, hence its decision to extend free availability of core development tools to students. Most [...]

Using MVC in PHP Applications.

The Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture provides a useful three-tier pattern for building software, as MVC patterns decouple the graphical user interface (GUI) from the application logic.
That comes in useful when it comes to changing an application after it has been deployed. Separation of the views from the data means modifications made in the views do [...]