Your easiest PHP framework to learn [closed]

Question

The obvious assumption here is that you try to learn more than one framework.

Please mention all the ones you tried to learn and which was the easiest. You can also say why: there was lots of training (or there was no training and that's just what you like), it just clicked with your style.. whatever comes to mind

Answer 1

I find Kohana quite easy to learn, but I haven't used it much and have very little expericence with it, so far.

Answer 2

i tried to learn Codeigniter and Zend Framework, Cake PHP

and believe me Codeigniter is the easiest framework to learn ever :

• it's easy
• Rasmus Lerdorf himself recommended it
• you can get under the hood and customize it
• all versions before v2.0 supports php4
• it got lots of features that will dramatically accelerate your work

zend and cake didn't suite me because :

• they force me to use command line to create project and add features to it (it's good for linux but nightmare on windows)
• zend framework size is catastrophe comparing to 4Megas of codeigniter
• it has a long curve for learning as documentation is not easy to understand

Answer 3

The hardest part of learning a framework is learning the conventions and methodology involved.
MVC. HMVC (Kohana uses this), OOP

CakePHP was fairly easy to learn once you get your head around the conventions. The documementation is also fairly decent but the best way to learn it is to look at the source code.

Answer 4

I picked up CakePHP on my own in the past few months. While I haven't used the others, I do not speak for them. I like CakePHP for the following reasons

• Very good documentation
• Friendly community in #cakephp on irc.freenode.net
• Projects can be executed fast with the use of bake scripts

Some of the disadvantages

• You are forced to use command-line for cake scripts

I'd +1 CakePHP for the ease with which you can have an app built over time.

Answer 5

When I started on my own, CodeIgniter was the easiest one, because of it's simplicity (some times just their cheat sheet was enough!). Later on I had to study some MVC for a class in Java. After that Zend was far more easier. Cake was difficult to grasp because it contained Rubyisms which I did not know back then...

My personal experience, nothing to be general here though.

Answer 6

Yii framework is a masterpiece. Easy to learn and use. Combine it with Zend framework you will get a deadly duo.

Answer 7

Swiftlet is pretty easy to get started with, it should work without any configuration at all and has very few conventions to adhere. I've used it for several smaller and medium-sized sites myself.