The Best 8 ApPHP MVC Framework Alternatives

  • CodeIgniter

    PHP (version 4 or 5) framework with a thin model layer. Includes an ActiveRecord class for database agnostic (mostly) data retrieval. Good community support in its forums. Further development available via GitHub: https://github .

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • Laravel

    Laravel is a clean and classy PHP framework with minimal configuration and expressive syntax. RESTful routing; ORM; beautiful code.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

  • Symfony

    Symfony is a set of reusable PHP components and a PHP framework for web projects.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web PHP

  • Yii Framework

    Yii is a high-performance component-based PHP framework best for Web 2.0 development. Yii comes with rich features: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • CakePHP

    CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted PHP

  • FuelPHP

    Fuel is a simple, flexible, community driven PHP 5.3 web framework based on the best ideas of other frameworks with a fresh start and a design pattern in HMVC. The...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Directy CMF

    Cross-platform content management framework for publishing web content. This is a multi-purpose web application based on ApPHP MVC Framework.

    Commercial