Best Web-Framework with jQuery-Integration

Question

I'm struggling to find out which PHP-Frameworks does the best job when it comes to integrate with jQuery as Frontend-Framework. Zend seems to work best with Dojo, CakePHP with Prototype, but my favorite one JQuery seems nowhere to be supported out of the box.

For example CakePHP has a pagination helper, but it works only with Prototype and the one integrated in Zend Framework uses Dojo :( But my goal is not to mix multiple JS-Frameworks within the same project.

Can anyone give me a hint? Thanks a lot in advance

Answer 1

I do not know what the best web framework with jQuery Integration is, but Zend Framework has an optional component ZendX_JQuery that provides a number of helpers for jQuery usage similar to what they offer for Dojo.

Answer 2

I'm not sure about best framework, but I like Yii framework (jQuery: This is integrated in Yii as the foundational JavaScript framework):

Yii -- a high-performance component-based PHP framework best for developing large-scale Web applications. Yii comes with a full stack of features, including MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, jQuery-based AJAX support, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, input validation, widgets, events, theming, Web services, and so on. Written in strict OOP, Yii is easy to use and is extremely flexible and extensible.

Answer 3

If you are good in JS and jQuery there is no matter what is the Framework underneath. I am using jQuery with CakePHP from very long time and there are no complains.

About the pagination with jQuery see this. Of course the article is a little bit old and now this cold be achieved with live(), but important here is prove of concept.

Answer 4

I use codeigniter and it's very easy to use jquery with it. I suggest CI, in my opinion it is the best framework.