Analyzing PHP frameworks for use in a project-based software engineering course

Abstract

Given the popularity of PHP frameworks used in developing webbased applications, a comparative study is conducted to determine which framework is best suited for incorporation into the curriculum of an undergraduate software engineering course that uses project-based learning. The top six PHP frameworks (Zend, Yii, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, PRADO, and Symphony) were initially considered and then narrowed down to two (CakePHP and CodeIgniter) based on their alignment with common functionality in previous class projects, framework complexity for those new to frameworks (learning curve), and developer friendliness (availability of documentation and online resources). An in-depth comparative study is conducted by developing a functionally-equivalent web application using each of the two frameworks as well as plain PHP (no framework). This work was motivated by the difficulties that were encountered in an evolving, content-rich software engineering course and discusses the educational changes that were made to align student learning with sound software engineering principles and current software development practices used in the computing industry.

Desarrollo de un software web para la generación de planes de gestión de riesgos de software

“…Para la implementación del software, se utilizaron distintas tecnologías, tanto para la planificación de requerimientos, diseño del prototipo del sistema, diseño del modelo lógico relacional, un entorno de desarrollo y un framework de aplicaciones web en PHP (Lancor y Katha, 2013;Olanrewaju et al, 2015;Gómez, 2014;Haughee, 2013), basado en el patrón de diseño Modelo Vista Controlador (MVC) (Hussain et al, 2017;González y Romero, 2014), MySql para las consultas a la base de datos (Ni et al, 2018), JavaScript, como también la librería jQuery (Castillo, 2017) y Bootstrap (Laazari et al, 2019), para un mayor grado de calidad en la interfaz de usuario, permitiendo que ésta sea intuitiva y dinámica. En la Tabla 2, se puede apreciar el listado de las tecnologías y lenguajes de programación utilizados para el desarrollo del sistema.…”

PHP Frameworks Usability in Web Application Development

“…4) Symfony, laravel, CodeIgniter, Phalcon and core PHP [24]. 5) CakePHP, Laravel and CodeIgniter [15]. 6) CakePHP2, CodeIgniter, Symfony2, Yii and Phalcon [23].…”

Comparison Between Yii Frameworks and Laravel in 3 Different Version for Viewing Large Data of Shipyard Industry in Indonesia

“…Based on PHP's popularity, there are so many Frameworks are available and easy used provided for development. In [19] cited by [18], shows that currently almost 40% of the top million sites on the internet was distributed by PHP framework as shown in In selecting a framework for this research, we consider of the usage trend in recent years, popularity among the development communities, clearly of the documentation as the guidance of the development. As the time of writing this paper, the 5 popularity PHP frameworks listed in [13].…”