From the course: Exploring and Selecting PHP Frameworks

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There is no right framework

There is no right framework

From the course: Exploring and Selecting PHP Frameworks

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There is no right framework

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Good news about frameworks, they are all flexible enough to support nearly any project. Some will bend more easily and have more out-of-the-box features. Your choice of framework is probably not going to be what determines success or failure of a project. In a previous video, I mentioned NASA uses WordPress for their main site, obviously with many customizations. And government sites have additional requirements. Even so, WordPress serves that agency's needs. I worked on a large project for Disney years ago that used several WordPress installations that were connected to each other via a Laravel application. Spotify uses Symfony to handle their users, over 75 million of them. Cloudflare, 2023 year-in-review had a section around website technologies, and notably, PHP made up around 55 percent of what they saw. The framework section was also interesting. Despite the use of PHP, Yii was the first PHP framework on the list, with only 4.2 percent, and at the bottom, Laravel and Symfony at…

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