Ask HN: What PHP framework would you choose if you could start over?

Re:Ask HN: What PHP framework would you choose if you could ... by arippberger on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @10:25AM (#11994025)

I'd argue Laravel and Symfony's development are tightly coupled to a single person / company (Taylor Otwell / SensioLabs). If CMS & ecommerce are a big portion of this project I'd easily pick WordPress. The only requirement it fails to meet is "no php code in templates". WordPress meets all the other criteria and it is generally great for spinning up a MVP.

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Re:Ask HN: What PHP framework would you choose if you could ... by gremlinsinc on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @06:35AM (#12000685)

Wordpress is good if you need posts/blog-like site, but if you're going to scale up to something really huge like Groupon did, you'd be better off with a custom framework w/ full control, better caching, etc. -- Wordpress is a hog on resources, and very easily hacked as well. My laravel sites all perform light years better/faster.

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