# Looking for PHP frameworks similar to Rails etc

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**Created:** [March 2, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-php-frameworks-similar-to-rails-etc/87464 "2007-03-02T19:24:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-php-frameworks-similar-to-rails-etc/87464/1 "2007-03-02T19:24:02Z")

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I posted the following on the PHP newsgroup. Someone recommended code  
igniter in PHP  
which looks alot like rails kind of so at least there is a small  
learning curve, but if anyone has any other  
recommendations, please let me know:

I recently started working at a company and it sounds like I am  
slated for a new web 2.0 project that will begin in a few weeks in  
PHP. I have done alot of C++, Perl, and Java as well as Ruby On Rails,  
which I think Rails is probably what I’d prefer to work in but it  
doesn’t seem to have caught on enough so that many companies still  
prefer PHP and it’s not really up to me what to do it in. Anyway, I  
saw on the PHP Wiki and in a number of posts that the MVC stuff out  
there for PHP looks like CakePHP, PRADO and Symfony. I guess Zend has  
something as well ? I was at the book store and saw a book on Symfony  
and am tempted to just go down and buy it so I have something to  
study. I suspect using a framework would make it easier, especially if  
I have some lead time to study it. Any comments on that ? The two  
books I currently have is PHP 5 Power Programming and I just bought  
PHP in a nutshell. I saw that that you can create Flash stuff in PHP,  
which I was never aware of that. I may also get the PHP cookbook as I  
have found that this style of book has been usefull to me. Any other  
book recomendations or thoughts on PHP MVC stuff would be appreciated.

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**Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-php-frameworks-similar-to-rails-etc/87464/2 "2007-03-02T19:45:04Z")

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> I posted the following on the PHP newsgroup. Someone recommended code  
> igniter in PHP  
> which looks alot like rails kind of so at least there is a small  
> learning curve, but if anyone has any other  
> recommendations, please let me know:

[http://www.akelos.org/](http://www.akelos.org/) have done a rails to php port.

A quote from their website “The Akelos Framework is Akelos is a PHP4  
and PHP5 port of Ruby on Rails Web D. Framework.”

No personal experience, but I had a brief chat with the developer once

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**Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-php-frameworks-similar-to-rails-etc/87464/3 "2007-03-02T20:03:08Z")

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The Symfony book is available for free online:

[http://www.symfony-project.com/book/trunk](http://www.symfony-project.com/book/trunk)

I prefer to have a hard copy, but at least you can preview it there.