Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

Laravel

Stacks16.9K

Followers12.8K

+ 1

Votes3.4K

Zend Framework

Stacks242

Followers195

+ 1

Votes45

Add tool

Laravel vs Zend Framework: What are the differences?

What is Laravel? A PHP Framework For Web Artisans. Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

What is Zend Framework? An open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5. Zend Framework 2 is an open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP 5.3+. Zend Framework 2 uses 100% object-oriented code and utilises most of the new features of PHP 5.3, namely namespaces, late static binding, lambda functions and closures.

Laravel and Zend Framework belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.

"Clean architecture" is the primary reason why developers consider Laravel over the competitors, whereas "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Zend Framework.

Laravel and Zend Framework are both open source tools. It seems that Laravel with 53.4K GitHub stars and 16.4K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Zend Framework with 5.71K GitHub stars and 2.87K GitHub forks.

9GAG, PedidosYa, and Swat.io are some of the popular companies that use Laravel, whereas Zend Framework is used by Webedia, TheIconic, and Next Jump. Laravel has a broader approval, being mentioned in 831 company stacks & 773 developers stacks; compared to Zend Framework, which is listed in 40 company stacks and 22 developer stacks.

Decisions about Laravel and Zend Framework

Anant Jadhav

Nov 7, 2020 | 5 upvotes · 69.4K views

Chose

I am planning to develop project management system SAAS based. Can any one help me with selection of platforms from Django or Laravel and for database MongoDB or Firebase/Firestore or MySql? On front end I am going to use Quasar Framework (VueJS). Note : project will be Webapp, Mobile app and desktop app.

washie mugo

Developer at Bytecom · Jun 14, 2020 | 8 upvotes · 200.9K views

Chose

Django

over

Laravel

i find python quite resourceful. given the bulk of libraries that python has and the trends of the tech i find django which runs on python to be the framework of choice to the upcoming web services and application. Laravel on the other hand which is powered by PHP is also quite resourceful and great for startups and common web applications.

Christopher Wray

Web Developer at Soltech LLC · Mar 12, 2020 | 6 upvotes · 98.3K views

Chose

over

(

)

When I started on this project as the sole developer, I was new to web development and I was looking at all of the web frameworks available for the job. I had some experience with Ruby on Rails and I had looked into .net for a bit, but when I found Laravel, it felt like the best framework for me to get the product to market. What made me choose Laravel was the easy to read documentation and active community. Rails had great documentation, but lacked some features built in that I wanted out of the box, while .net had a ton of video documentation tutorials, but nothing as straightforward as Laravels. So far, I am happy with the decision I made, and looking forward to the website release!

Pros of Laravel

Pros of Zend Framework

500
Clean architecture
359
Growing community
336
Composer friendly
312
Open source
293
The only framework to consider for php
194
Mvc
189
Quickly develop
155
Dependency injection
142
Application architecture
129
Embraces good community packages
57
Write less, do more
50
Restful routing
46
Orm (eloquent)
43
Artisan scaffolding and migrations
42
Database migrations & seeds
35
Awesome
33
Great documentation
25
Awsome, Powerfull, Fast and Rapid
25
Promotes elegant coding
24
Build Apps faster, easier and better
22
JSON friendly
21
Most easy for me
20
Eloquent ORM
20
Easy to learn, scalability
19
Test-Driven
19
Modern PHP
18
Blade Template
18
Beautiful
13
Security
11
Clean Documentation
10
Convention over Configuration
10
Based on SOLID
10
Cool
9
Easy to attach Middleware
9
Simple
8
Fast
8
Easy to use
8
Laravel + Cassandra = Killer Framework
8
Simpler
8
Get going quickly straight out of the box. BYOKDM
8
Easy Request Validatin
7
Less dependencies
7
Simplistic , easy and faster
7
Its just wow
6
Friendly API
5
Its beautiful to code in
5
Super easy and powerful
5
Great customer support
4
Speed
4
Fast and Clarify framework
4
The only "cons" is wrong! No static method just Facades
4
Easy
4
Active Record
4
Php7
3
Laravel Mix
3
Laragon
3
Eloquent
3
Easy views handling and great ORM
3
Minimum system requirements
3
Composer
2
Intuitive usage
2
Laravel Spark
2
Laravel Passport
2
Laravel Nova
2
Laravel casher
2
Laravel Horizon and Telescope
2
Laravel Forge and Envoy
2
Ease of use
2
Cashier with Braintree and Stripe
1
Rapid development
0
Scout

24
Open source
10
Community
3
Fast
3
Scalable
2
Friendly configuratin
2
Many library
1
MVC
0
Easy setup
0
HMVC Structure

Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

Cons of Laravel

Cons of Zend Framework

38
PHP
26
Too many dependency
19
Slower than the other two
15
A lot of static method calls for convenience
13
Too many include
10
Heavy
7
Bloated
6
Laravel
5
Confusing
4
Does not work well for file uploads in Shared Hosting
3
Too underrated
2
Not fast with MongoDB
1
Difficult to learn
1
Not using SOLID principles

Be the first to leave a con

Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

What is Laravel?

It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

What is Zend Framework?

It is an open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP 5.3+. It uses 100% object-oriented code and utilizes most of the new features of namely namespaces, late static binding, lambda functions and closures.

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

Jobs that mention Laravel and Zend Framework as a desired skillset

Web Engineer, Shopping Product

San Francisco, California, United States

View Job Details

Fullstack Engineer, Landing Experience

San Francisco, California, United States

View Job Details

Android Engineer, Native Publishing

San Francisco, California, United States

View Job Details

Data Engineer, People Insights & Analytics

San Francisco, CA

View Job Details

Backend Engineer, Internationalization

Dublin, IE

View Job Details

+10

IT Client Platform Engineer (Contract)

San Francisco, California, United States

View Job Details

Machine Learning Engineer, Home Team

San Francisco, CA

View Job Details

+11

(Senior/ Mid-Level) Salesforce Engineer - Service Cloud (f/m/d)

Delivery Hero SE

Germany City Berlin

View Job Details

+12

See jobs for Laravel

See jobs for Zend Framework

What companies use Laravel?

What companies use Zend Framework?

Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

What tools integrate with Laravel?

What tools integrate with Zend Framework?

Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

What are some alternatives to Laravel and Zend Framework?

Symfony

It is written with speed and flexibility in mind. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP..

CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is a proven, agile & open PHP web application framework with a small footprint. It is powering the next generation of web apps.

Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

CakePHP

It makes building web applications simpler, faster, while requiring less code. A modern PHP 7 framework offering a flexible database access layer and a powerful scaffolding system.

Rails

Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

See all alternatives

Interest over time

News about Laravel

Reader Question: Why did you choose Statamic for Laravel News?

(laravel-news.com)

1 day ago

Laravel Sail adds support for choosing which services you'd like installed

(laravel-news.com)

1 day ago

Generate GitHub Actions Config for Laravel Projects with Ghygen

(laravel-news.com)

2 days ago