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Pick up to four tools and compare adoption, momentum and maintenance at a glance. The crown marks the leader in each row.

Small-footprint MVC framework popular for simple apps and shared hosting.

Expressive full-stack framework with Eloquent ORM, queues and a huge first-party ecosystem.

Reusable components and full-stack framework behind Drupal, many Laravel internals and enterprise apps.

Modern PHP app server built on Caddy with worker mode, HTTP/3 and early hints; now under the PHP org.

Head to head

Metric	CodeIgniter	Laravel	Symfony	FrankenPHP
Stars	6k	35k	31.5k	11.5k
Weekly downloads	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Download growth	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Popularity score	69/100	83/100	82/100	74/100
Forks	2k	12k	10k	513
Open issues	40	87	281	119
Last commit	1w ago	5d ago	4d ago	4d ago
License	MIT	MIT	MIT	MIT
First released	2015	2013	2010	2022
Signals	None	Popular	Popular	Rising
Listed in	Backend › PHP Frameworks	Backend › PHP Frameworks	Backend › PHP Frameworks	Backend › PHP Frameworks

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Small-footprint MVC framework popular for simple apps and shared hosting.

Expressive full-stack framework with Eloquent ORM, queues and a huge first-party ecosystem.

Reusable components and full-stack framework behind Drupal, many Laravel internals and enterprise apps.

Modern PHP app server built on Caddy with worker mode, HTTP/3 and early hints; now under the PHP org.

Metric	CodeIgniter	Laravel	Symfony	FrankenPHP
Stars	6k	35k	31.5k	11.5k
Weekly downloads	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Download growth	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Popularity score	69/100	83/100	82/100	74/100
Forks	2k	12k	10k	513
Open issues	40	87	281	119
Last commit	1w ago	5d ago	4d ago	4d ago
License	MIT	MIT	MIT	MIT
First released	2015	2013	2010	2022
Signals	None	Popular	Popular	Rising
Listed in	Backend › PHP Frameworks	Backend › PHP Frameworks	Backend › PHP Frameworks	Backend › PHP Frameworks

No download history for the selected tools.