What PHP framework to choose?

[nfbs]

I know you say it depends on your need but it is still not an easy choice I don't care what people say.

I have to upgrade an old site written 10 years ago and train the client as he will take over programming and if he needs to get another resource on it he can at least find someone.

It's easy to exclude the more enterprise frameworks like Zend and Symfony so the choice is between CodeIgnitor and CakePHP but then you get the latest frameworks like Yii and Laravel and then I am not so sure anymore.

As it stands now I'll probably go with CodeIgnitor

With Java you choose Spring, C# is MVC Razor,Ruby is Rails but PHP is like WTF.

 

[biometrics]

I like Codeigniter but we're also trying Laravel.

 

[adrianx]

I'm stuck in a similar predicament, but I think I'm going to go with Laravel. CodeIgniter's obsession with backwards compatibility gives me serious doubts about its future. On the other hand, CodeIgniter's documentation is probably slightly better than Laravel's.

...but I really think Laravel is more "future proof" than CodeIgniter at the moment.

 

[InvisibleJim]

I like Yii a lot. The Gii tool is a nice RAD feature and I like that it has built in support for ACL's and is well suited to test driven development. I have also heard it claimed that Yii is the most 'Rails like' of the PHP frameworks and has better performance (according to the developers) than other frameworks (measured by the Hello World test that Rasmus Lerdorf used a few years ago to criticise framework overhead, Yii's performance is comparable to that of a standalone php script.)

Codeigniter and CakePHP are also pretty cool.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

I like Codeigniter but we're also trying Laravel.

Snap

Love Codeigniter especially with Groccery Crud, slapped a prototype CMS together to demonstrate codeignitor & CG in one day and it ended up becoming production code.

We currently work with Kohano and looking at moving over to Laravel.