A comparative study of laravel and symfony PHP frameworks

Majida Laaziri (Abdelmalek Essaadi University)
Khaoula Benmoussa (Abdelmalek Essaadi University)
Samira Khoulji (Abdelmalek Essaadi University)
Kerkeb Mohamed Larbi (Abdelmalek Essaadi University)
Abir El Yamami (Hassan II University)

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vol 9, No 1: February 2019

With the current explosion of Information Systems, the market offers a wide range of interesting technological solutions. Yet, this does not mean adopting a technology without considering its impact on the existing information system and user expectations. It is recommended to identify and implement the technological solutions most suited to the Information Systems strategy. Therefore, new methods are emerging and design tools are still evolving; the PHP Frameworks are part of it, which open up new perspectives in terms of information system enrichment. In this context, this paper focuses on the elaboration of a comparative study between Laravel, symfony framworks, which are the most popular PHP frameworks.  Thus, it provides an effective comparison model that merges seven dimensions: Features, Multilingual, System requirements, Technical architecture, Code Organization, Continuous Integration (CI) and finally Documentation and learning curve dimension. Results show that our model can be beneficial for IT project developers to select the suitable PHP Framework.