Which MVC framework

Question

The following criteria has to be met:

• stable release (>= 1.0)
• strong community (e.g. lots of forum posts)
• active development (new releases coming out reasonably often)
• good documentation
• important: support (plugin, library, component) for embedding videos (videos will be hosted on local server, not on public video service provider). External component can be used.
• preferred if it's based on PHP, Java, Ruby, Python

Answer 1

Zend Framework.

• Very stable
• Huge community and developed by the PHP Company
• In active development
• Very large and detailed documentation

Answer 2

Ruby on Rails

Answer 3

If you're happy with java Spring offers a pretty robust MVC framework, as well as a lot of other things which may be a plus or a minus depending on your needs. It meets all of you're requirements but I doubt it'll help with video embedding.

Answer 4

symfony (PHP framework)

http://www.symfony-project.org/

Answer 5

Here also a big fan of Zend framework More information about the available php mvc frameworks in a table, but there's a huge choice : php mvc frameworks

another link Top 10 php frameworks

good luck

Answer 6

If you want a Java based framework (struts, JSF, etc) then I would recommend to go for groovy on rails

For php based go for zend.

Answer 7

Django?

Answer 8

I recommend Ruby on Rails, for several reasons:

• Rails is pretty easy to get up and running with
• Rails incorporates many best practices and established patterns e.g. MVC, REST and ActiveRecord
• It didn't used to be the case, but Rails now has lots of high quality and free documentation and supporting resources to help you learn
• Lots of websites and applications have already been built using Rails
• Rails is under active development and the future of the framework looks pretty bright

Answer 9

Personally, for PHP, I use Code Igniter. Very easy to pick up, and if you want you can extend it using the Zend Framework (see here for an example).