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• Laravel 5

  10.0 8.7 L5 CodeIgniter VS Laravel 5

  Another PHP framework (L5).

• Symfony

  9.9 9.9 L3 CodeIgniter VS Symfony

  A framework comprised of individual components

• Yii2

  9.9 9.2 L3 CodeIgniter VS Yii2

  Another PHP framework.

• Swoole

  9.8 9.9 L2 CodeIgniter VS Swoole

  Event-driven asynchronous & concurrent networking engine with high performance for PHP.

• Slim Framework

  9.7 9.4 CodeIgniter VS Slim Framework

  Slim Framework source code

• CakePHP

  9.7 9.4 L2 CodeIgniter VS CakePHP

  A rapid application development framework (CP).

• Phalcon

  9.7 9.8 L4 CodeIgniter VS Phalcon

  A framework implemented as a C extension.

• Zend Framework 2

  9.6 1.9 CodeIgniter VS Zend Framework 2

  Another framework comprised of individual components (ZF2).

• swoft

  8.7 9.2 CodeIgniter VS swoft

  Modern High performance AOP and Coroutine PHP Framework

• FuelPHP

  7.5 4.0 L2 CodeIgniter VS FuelPHP

  FuelPHP v1.x is a simple, flexible, community driven PHP 5.3+ framework, based on the best ideas of other frameworks, with a fresh start! FuelPHP is fully PHP 7 compatible.

• Kraken PHP

  6.9 0.0 L5 CodeIgniter VS Kraken PHP

  The first and only fault-tolerant PHP framework for distributed applications.

• MopaBootstrapBundle

  6.9 1.2 CodeIgniter VS MopaBootstrapBundle

  Easy integration of twitters bootstrap into symfony2

• Opulence

  5.8 2.5 L4 CodeIgniter VS Opulence

  A simple, secure, and scalable PHP application framework

• Swiftlet

  5.1 0.0 CodeIgniter VS Swiftlet

  Quite possibly the smallest MVC framework you'll ever use.

• Nette

  4.9 7.3 CodeIgniter VS Nette

  Another framework comprised of individual components.

• Aura PHP

  4.2 6.1 L5 CodeIgniter VS Aura PHP

  A framework of independent components.

• Ice

  4.1 8.3 CodeIgniter VS Ice

  Another simple and fast PHP framework delivered as C-extension.

• ATK UI

  3.9 9.5 CodeIgniter VS ATK UI

  Build Data-Driven User Interface in PHP

• CleverStyle Framework

  3.2 0.0 L4 CodeIgniter VS CleverStyle Framework

  Simple, scalable, fast and secure full-stack PHP framework

• PPI Framework 2

  3.2 0.0 L4 CodeIgniter VS PPI Framework 2

  An interoperability framework.

• Equip

  2.9 0.0 L5 CodeIgniter VS Equip

  A tiny, yet powerful, PHP micro-framework.

• OpenAPI PSR-7 Message (HTTP Request/Response) Validator

  2.7 9.1 CodeIgniter VS OpenAPI PSR-7 Message (HTTP Request/Response) Validator

  php, openapi, psr7

• Radar

  1.7 3.2 L5 CodeIgniter VS Radar

  An Action-Domain-Responder implementation for PHP.

• php-speller

  1.5 3.2 CodeIgniter VS php-speller

  PHP spell check library

• Mako Framework

  1.3 6.6 L5 CodeIgniter VS Mako Framework

  Mako Framework

• ReactPHP Promises Testing

  1.0 3.2 CodeIgniter VS ReactPHP Promises Testing

  PHPUnit assertions for testing ReactPHP promises

• Quantum PHP Framework

  0.9 7.2 CodeIgniter VS Quantum PHP Framework

  Quantum PHP Project

• Slim3 GAE Skeleton

  0.6 0.0 CodeIgniter VS Slim3 GAE Skeleton

  Slim 3 skeleton working with Google App Engine include cron configuration.

• Aura Framework

  - - CodeIgniter VS Aura Framework

  A framework built from independent components.

• Symfony 3

  - - CodeIgniter VS Symfony 3

  A framework comprised of individual components (SF3).

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