Which PHP frameworks are used by corporations?

Question

There are several questions about PHP frameworks, but I'm curious as to which one(s) are used in the commercial world when developing web applications with PHP. At my first web-based job, they didn't have a framework for the PHP codebase. Is this common when dealing with PHP? If not, what frameworks to companies producing a product (either a site that provides a service of some kind or a web-based product that can be purchased) using PHP tend to use?

Answer 1

According to a PHP Framework Popularity at Work survey by Sitepoint in 2015 (7554 survey participants) the five most used frameworks are

1. Laravel (22%)
2. Symfony2 (14%)
3. Nette (9%)
4. CodeIgniter (8%)
5. Yii 2 (7%)

Furthermore survey results indicate, that

• 5% use a company internal framework,
• 3% use no framework at all,
• 3% use a CMS for everything,
• 1% use a simple MVC framework.

There seem to be continent specific framework preferences: In America and Asia, Laravel seems to be the framework of choice (except for Russia: Yii 2), whereas in Europe you'll find more Symfony2.

(Be aware that this is just referenced from one source -- see links above.)

Answer 2

In last two three places I've worked the company had their own (private, built in-house) framework.

Answer 3

You may want to look at www.flow3.org, it's a pretty comprehensive approach to PHP application frameworking and is rapidly approaching its first mainstream Beta release.

Answer 4

I'm not sure if PHP has gone into the enterprise market in the US yet but when i worked in a corporate office the language what they use is Microsoft .NET. PHP is yet to enter the corporate world IMO. It is popular with the hacker world and maybe micro and small software/web companies.