The world of PHP frameworks has expanded tremendously. Developers from open source development companies have countless choice of frameworks to choose from. Hence here are a few factors to consider before choosing the right framework for your project.

Custom Vs. Innovation

 The requirements take the focal point. If the requirements are generic, with the capacity to utilize standard plug-ins and components to satisfy the requirements, then the preference should be for development platforms like Joomla, Drupal, or WordPress. This may seem like content management systems.

These CMS have developed over time with development platforms offering standard plugins/components for development.

If the requirements are clearly specified and demand custom development, then the preference should be for the frameworks like Zend, Cake PHP, Code Igniter, Yii Frameworks etc. which provide development libraries without any executed functionality.

Robust Architecture: Design Model

Majority Frameworks follow Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern, which is also applied in web programming. Developers from companies offering LAMP development services need to clearly examine the execution of MVC is, in relation to the frameworks being used. Frameworks like Zend have loosely implemented MVC and permit design modification. Whereas frameworks like Yii, have strictly implemented MVC.

If you want to have more flexibility when it comes to design patterns, it is advisable to choose frameworks like Zen, which permits the developer to experiment with the architecture based on the requirements.

If you wish for a stricter implementation of MVC and want to adhere to the framework’s design rule, then select frameworks like Yii which have a stricter implementation of MVC.

Accessibility of Database: ORM Support

One of the main reasons for preferring a framework over flat PHP development is to re-utilize the database access layer available in the frameworks. This permits the developer the leeway to create the database access. 

Frameworks like Yii, Zend, Cake PHP etc. goes a step ahead with object-relational mapping support making things easier for database programming for companies offering software development services in Dubai. 

You should also carefully scrutinize if the Data Access Objects (DAO) support connections to various databases, which is needed for more complex systems, in a single uniform interface. 

Support for Performance: Caching

Caching is a cost-effective and efficient way to increase the performance of a web application. We save a lot of time to generate the data by saving the static data on the cache and presenting it when required.

Frameworks need to offer a mechanism to handle cache and thereby bring about performance effectively. The assistance needed for caching should be analyzed to see how the access to caching mechanism is provided by the frameworks of choice.

In addition to the above-mentioned factors, developers should also look for supporting factors live module availability, simple template creation, AJAX support to integrate Rich Internet Application Components, support for unit testing, object-oriented methodologies, compliance to XHTML standards etc. before closing in on a framework of choice.