In the same way that you wrote your framework with PHP, other people did it too. It did not take long for people to realize that entire frameworks were reusable too. Of course, one man's meat is another man's poison, and as with many other examples in the IT world, loads of frameworks started to appear. You will never hear about most of them, but a handful of these frameworks got quite a lot of users.
As we write, there are four or five main frameworks that most PHP developers know of: Symfony and Zend Framework were the main characters of this last PHP generation, but Laravel is also there, providing a lightweight and fast framework for those who need fewer features. Due to the nature of this book, we will focus on the latest ones, Silex and Laravel, as they are quick enough to learn in a chapter—or at least their basics are.
In this chapter, you will learn about:
The importance of frameworks
Other features of frameworks
Working with Laravel
Writing...