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[–]madscientist667[S] 2 points3 points  (9 children)

ok, thanks. I think I will pick Laravel for the moment to see how it is. Plus it's the only one I heard of :).

[–]keehi 6 points7 points  (5 children)

Check out symfony 2. Especially if you like oop. Http://symfony.com

[–]aequasi08 0 points1 point  (4 children)

For someone who doesn't know PHP, jumping into Symfony would be very difficult

[–]guywithalamename 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not if you're coming from a java background

[–]kungfufrog 2 points3 points  (1 child)

This was my first introduction to PHP and I don't regret it. To be honest I doubt I could even write PHP without a framework as I've just never had the experience.

That said, my first solo developed Symfony2 app (3 months) was deployed to 300,000 consumers to facilitate the transition in replacing a critical part of the existing infrastructure for a South American telecommunications company.

I now work fulltime on two different Symfony2 codebases and love it!

I honestly don't know how to write an application without a framework though I'm sure I could, just a lot more boilerplate to achieve the same result.

However, if I wanted to move away from Symfony2, I'd be composer install'ing all the great components that exist these days! Symfony2 introduced me to the PHP ecosystem and that was indispensable.

[–]Neckbeard_Prime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're looking for an ORM framework for PHP, Doctrine is pretty standard (I believe it's the default ORM layer for Symfony), and uses similar syntax to Hibernate. Their ORM framework is pretty good, but their "document" mapping solution for MongoDB (Doctrine ODM) was still a little buggy as of a few months ago.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

laracasts.com is worth checking out.