So I'm pretty new to PHP after coming off 5 years worth of Java. So far I've used nothing but standard, out-of-the-box code. Anyone got any recommendations for frameworks or nice tools I could look at? I'd especially like something that could make forms and database interactions easier (my software is a lot of data capturing and reporting)

Laravel.com
Laracasts.com
Awesome Laravel:
https://github.com/chiraggude/...
Awesome PHP:
https://github.com/ziadoz/...

@Artemix laravel is slow gas factory?

Ok so why are you moving to PHP from java?! Learn javascript, it's replacing php in last years. Don't waste your time with php

@Artemix no I'm not new to web dev

@Artemix love the hipster terms, thanks!

It depends on what you want.
Learning ease
Speed
Use case
Community
Support
Documentation

@Artemix
Is right phalcon is the fastest, a big part is written in c.

On security I'm not completely qualified to make a statement so I'll take @artemix word for it

For me personally I enjoy Laravel. It's a toolbox whatever tool you need it's there.

https://google.nl/amp/s/...

@stiaanvm

Welcome to DevRant😊

Thanks @maester-Em!

Symfony (& Doctrine)

Why would you go from Java to PHP? Java earns more. And if you wanted some fast web scripting stuff, then you should just move entirely to .NET :P

But seriously, Rasmus Lerdorf has bashed frameworks quite a bit. They're slow and trying to make PHP what it's not supposed to be.

If you want to code MVC stuff - find a fast engine built on that exclusively. As far as benchmarks go, ASP.NET MVC Core is one of the fastest, if not THE fastest MVC framework.

@apisarenco
about rasmus lerdorf, are you referring to this talk? (3:49 sec snippet PHP Frameworks all suck!)
https://youtube.com/watch/...

@Triskelion talks, articles, I don't remember the exact source, but I just had this stuck in my mind.

I've been doing PHP in the past, but not very framework-related, or in-house frameworks mostly. Because whenever I touched an outside framework, it sucked so much I just wanted to burn it. Slow, hard to get around, easy to get errors, non-flexible, just eww.
Right now my work has a bit of interaction with Symfony. Aside from the ease and accessibility of adding packages that do everything, it's one of the worst performing, most badly written frameworks I came across. And it's slow because it's badly written.