Common PHP frameworks

Now a days most of the websites are developed by PHP. The main reason is that, it is open source and free software and most of the web servers support PHP. In PHP based web development companies, they are using frameworks for the site development. Because it provides better stability and security for the sites. Also it provide good coding standards and good templates for the sits.

Here I providing a list of good, commonly used PHP based frameworks

1. Drupal (http://drupal.org)
Drupal is the most commonly used PHP framework. It provides better security and stability for the sites. A good development teams for drupal. They are providing security updates and patches in regular interval and more than 3000 contributed modules and themes are available in drupal.
Drupal strictly following PHP coding standard and its provide extensibility and good support. Drupal is used for blog sites, e-commerce site and medium and large websites.
In developer point of view, easy for extend, developer friendly and easy to understand the code.

2. Wordpress (http://wordpress.org)
Wordpress is commonly used for developing blog sites. It provides a lot of good templates for sites. And most of the common blogging functionalities are included in the package.
Now a days most of the blogging sites are uses wordpress as their back end.

3. joomla (http://www.joomla.org)
joomla is also a php based framework. It is commonly used for organizations and institutions websites. Joomla gives a lot of beautiful templates. It has vibrant volunteer community, that help you to build good web sites.

4. Cake PHP (http://cakephp.org)
Cake PHP is fee open source, rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications.
It Using MVC architecture for the development. So developer need to write a less code.

5. Zend Framework (http://framework.zend.com/)
Zend, the PHP based most featured framework. It's the most old and well-known framework. Zend Framework has hundreds of contributors and users number in the hundreds of thousands.

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