There are a few but it depends on what you want to achieve and how much time you have to make your application up unpublished running. And we will begin from the smallest.
FlightPHP – easy to use for microservices, small APIs, POC, and extremely easy and fast. A small community with a big impact, a framework that is patter and skeleton agnostic that gives you the power to control the app on your own. FlightPHP gives you only a small set of tools to make your app easy up and running. The whole app can be written in only a single file.
SlimPHP – microframework with awesome documentation that by generated skeleton follows Domain-Driven-Design but also can be customizable. Follows the psr-7 PHP standard and it’s mostly used to build APIs. The framework is easy to scale and supports nice documentation on how to integrate extra packages like ORM, template engine, csrf-protection, flash messages, caching, and many more. By itself contains manual DI container in v.3 and from v.4 you can you external DI container with auto-wiring. Also, documentation supports a nice setup for the deployment of the app. Nice framework for small teams.
Laravel – one of the most popular and tools reach frameworks. Some people say that begins to be the de-facto standard for building web APIs and apps. It’s the most popular among developers and everybody loves it. In the community around the world, developers begin to build packages that are only compatible with Laravel. And why is that? Because it has extremely easy documentation to read, a bunch of tutorials around, and a big community. The framework by itself follows the MVC design pattern and gives you tools to build apps extremely fast. With Laravel, you can develop things so fast that in other frameworks you will do something in days. Laravel gives more focus on business and less on code. Framework with awesome scale, an awesome framework for every PHP developer.
Lumen – In short if you know already Laravel this framework will be piece of cake. It’s driven by the same community and the main purpose is to be used for microservices and APIs. This framework has high compatibility with Laravel stand-alone packages, so most of the tools used in Laravel can be used here.
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