The success of your project depends on the choice of frameworks. Therefore, first of all, it is worth focusing on this.

   Framework - is a platform for the development of sites, web-portals, forums, online stores.

   Consider the most popular frameworks.

   Symfony - designed for rapid development of web-applications, modules, plug-ins. It supports a large number of databases, including:

• Oracle;
• Microsoft SQL Server;
• My SQL;
• and other.

   Laravel - has a high degree of trust among users due to the speed of work and the ability to use many modules. Its main advantages are:

• easy installation and setup;
• ease of upgrading and maintenance;
• "qualitative code";
• convenient migration system.

   Yii2 - another PHP framework that is designed to develop portals, CMS, implementation of large projects.

   Benefits of Yii2 over other frameworks:

• high degree of performance;
• using MVC - a special template for software development;
• qualitative documentation;
• support for various database management systems;
• good security system;
• authentication support.

   Slim - mainly used to implement small applications. Developers increasingly prefer it to him, because it is convenient, simple and fast.

   This framework can be downloaded manually or using Composer. The main advantages are: speed, performance and pоwer оf wоrk.

   Zend - is a free open source framework. It has its advantages:

• good documentation that allows you to add new developers at different stages of the project;
• there are components that allow you to work with third-party services.

   One of the frameworks is - CakePHP, the main features of which are:

• using SQL - a coherent mechanism between the software and the database;
• support for active record (design template);
• MVC architecture;
• compatibility with such versions of PHP 4 and 5.

   Phalcon - is a fast PHP framework written in C and C ++.

   Its advantages:

• wide functional;
• high level of performance;
• security;
• caching.

   Another FuelPHP framework with the following features:

• rapid development of projects due to the presence of a special command line called Oil;
• compatibility with many web-servers;
• the speed of page generation.

   As we see, there is a wide choice of optimal PHP-frameworks. Therefore, it is necessary to follow the basic criteria for their choice:

• convenience;
• the simhlisity and ease of mastering the framework is important, especially for developers with little experience;
• performance level;
• security in use;
• the relevance of the documentation;
• database support.

   Of course, it's impossible to predict everything fоr the future and the choice can be false. That is why it is worth carefully and seriously approaching this issue. After analyzing and weighing all “pros” and “cons”, you will facilitate your task in the choice and find the best option.