Over the years, quantumcloud has undertaken many large and complex dynamic website development projects. Based on these projects' requirements our experienced programmers have had to work with different php framweoks at different times. Based on our experiences here is a tabular overview of the features available with the major open source php frameworks available today:

Comparing cakephp, codeigniter, fusebox, drupal, joomla, symfony, zend and silver stripe:

Of all the frameworks we worked with, we found code igniter and joomla to be most developer friendly as well as feature rich. Both are ideal for rapidly developing complex and large dynamic web applications when you are crinched for time. And of course, the huge number of free extensions - components, modules, plug ins available for Joomla! always helps! Joomla! has something or other already developed as paid or free open source extension for your most unusual web design requirements! It almost never disappoints.

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