The Best 25 PHPixie 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

  • Agile Toolkit

    Agile Toolkit is a PHP framework for developing Web User Interfaces. Inspired by desktop GUI it provides a full object-oriented foundation for Business and Presentation logic of your web software.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Zend Framework

    Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase.

    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

  • SingularCore

    SingularCore is a fine product powered by Zend Framework that provides instruments to create complex custom solutions where standard CMS’s won’t work or where you need...

    Free Open Source Web

  • Silex PHP micro-framework

    Silex - The PHP micro-framework based on Symfony2 Components Silex is a PHP microframework for PHP 5.3. It is built on the shoulders of Symfony2 and Pimple and also...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Nette Framework

    Nette Framework is a popular tool for PHP web development. It is designed to be the most usable as possible and is definitely one of the safest one. It speaks your...

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

  • bitcore

    A pure and powerful JavaScript Bitcoin library or blockchain library.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Mac JavaScript

  • TomP2P

    A P2P-based high performance key-value pair storage library.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Adianti Framework

    It is an open source tool that provides a complete architecture for developing PHP applications. Is a framework that uses commonly known enterprise design patterns like...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Qcodo

    Code Less. Do More. The Qcodo Development Framework is an open-source PHP framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary tedious, mundane coding.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Phalcon

    Phalcon is a high-performance PHP web framework based on the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern. Originally released in 2012, it is an open-source framework licensed...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Koseven

    Koseven is an elegant, open source, and object oriented HMVC framework built using PHP7, by a team of volunteers. It aims to be swift, secure, and small. Forked from...

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted

  • K2F

    Yet another PHP framework? Yes, but with a twist. This framework doesn’t focus on a specific methodology or paradigm (eg: MVC), but on getting things done quickly and...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web