Top 15 Yaf Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Yaf is the first PHP MVC framework which is written in C and built as PHP extension. It is considered the fastest and the lowest resource consuming PHP framework for now. It is well tested and has been applied successfully in many high traffic products in Baidu, Sina and other companies.

1. Zend Framework

Zend Framework Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors......

2. CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter PHP (version 4 or 5) framework with a thin model layer. Includes an ActiveRecord class for database agnostic (mostly) data retrieval. Good community support in its forums.Further development available via GitHub: https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/......

3. Briz Framework

Briz Framework Briz is a simple but powerful PHP framework for creating web applications.You can Write powerful web applications with multiple faces. It is efficient for creating anything from simple API to Large web applications.With Briz you can easily extend your web applications from a simple API to large web application with......

4. Belitsoft Yii Framework

Belitsoft Yii Framework Belitsoft - outsource software development services from Eastern Europe, Belarus, Minsk. We develop projects on PHP: Yii Framework and other platforms.......

5. Caracal Framework

Caracal Framework Fast, lightweight, developer oriented framework. Clear separation of code and content Built-in JSON based API Easy-to-use administration interface Flexible framework that gets out of your way......

6. PHP Fat-Free Framework

PHP Fat-Free Framework FAT-FREE is a powerful yet lightweight PHP 5.3+ Web development framework designed to help you build dynamic and robust applications - fast!Condensed in a single 55KB file, the frameworks simple domain-specific language gives you access to Fat-Frees all-purpose template engine, flexible cache, automatic spam protection, integrated unit testing tools, and......

7. Phraw

Phraw Phraw, a PHP micro-framework.Phraw is indicated for small web sites and small applications because is fast to learn, fast to bootstrap and fast to serve requests.......

8. Pharaoh Framework

Pharaoh Framework PHP-Pharaoh is a high-performance Application Development Packages Based Framework . Its goal is to enable you to develop projects much faster than you could if you were writing code from scratch, by providing a rich and strong codebase , as well as a simple interface and logical structure . PHP-Pharo......

9. DHTMLX

DHTMLX DHTMLX is a JavaScript library that provides a comprehensive set of UI widgets and makes building web apps easy. Develop killer web apps with DHTMLX!......

10. Bitnami WAMP Stack

Bitnami WAMP Stack Bitnami WAMP Stack provides a complete, fully-integrated and ready to run WAMP development environment. In addition to PHP, MySQL and Apache, it includes FastCGI, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, ModSecurity, SQLite, Varnish, ImageMagick, xDebug, Xcache, OpenLDAP, ModSecurity, Memcache, OAuth, PEAR, PECL, APC, GD, cURL and other components and the following frameworks:Zend Framework, Symfony,......

11. Phalcon

Phalcon (Wikipedia) Phalcon is a high-performance PHP web framework based on the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern. Originally released in 2012, it is an open-source framework licensed under the terms of the BSD License.Unlike most PHP frameworks, Phalcon is implemented as a web server extension written in C, aiming to boost execution speed,......

12. ClanCatsFramework

ClanCatsFramework ClanCats Framework, because your time is precious. HMVC PHP framework.......

13. Koa

Koa Expressive middleware for node.js using generators via co to make web applications and APIs more enjoyable to write. Koa's middleware flow in a stack-like manner allowing you to perform actions downstream, then filter and manipulate the response upstream. Koa's use of generators also greatly increases the readability and robustness of......

14. Skipper

Skipper Skipper, previously ORM Designer, is a visualization tool and a code generator for favourite ORM frameworks (Doctrine ORM, Doctrine2 ORM, Propel ORM and CakePHP). Application allows to edit ORM models in graphical interface and then export them directly to standardized and ready-to-use schema definition files. With Skipper, you can......

15. Pulpo

Pulpo Pulpo is a free visualization command-line tool for ORM Frameworks: Doctrine, Doctrine2 and Propel ORM. Tool allows to automatically generate visual schema from the ORM schema definition files. This schema is automatically formatted in the form of easily understandable Enhanced ER diagram. Main advantages of Pulpo are: -......