A comparative study of laravel and symfony PHP frameworks

by: International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE)

Publication date: 2019-02-01

Usage: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Topics: Comparison model, Laravel, PHP framework, Symfony

Collection: journals_contributions; journals

With the current explosion of Information Systems, the market offers a wide
range of interesting technological solutions. Yet, this does not mean adopting
a technology without considering its impact on the existing information
system and user expectations. It is recommended to identify and implement
the technological solutions most suited to the Information Systems strategy.
Therefore, new methods are emerging and design tools are still evolving; the
PHP Frameworks are part of it, which open up new perspectives in terms of
information system enrichment. In this context, this paper focuses on the
elaboration of a comparative study between Laravel, symfony framworks,
which are the most popular PHP frameworks. Thus, it provides an effective
comparison model that merges seven dimensions: Features, Multilingual,
System requirements, Technical architecture, Code Organization, Continuous
Integration (CI) and finally Documentation and learning curve dimension.
Results show that our model can be beneficial for IT project developers to
select the suitable PHP Framework.