PHP - Laravel & CodeIgniter

smartSense excels in PHP/laravel development

You might not be a developer but be faced with developer like questions for instance, “what language is the best for my new website?” When interviewing design firms or development companies each has a different opinion about what’s best. We develop most of our sites using WordPress. But what if you’re looking into a custom coded project? There are so many factors to investigate and each programmer has their favorite language to build in.

Is PHP the right choice for you?

PHP is a great option for many reasons for backend development. Here are some reasons why the language may be right for you or your project:

1. Fast Load Time
PHP results in faster site loading speeds. PHP codes runs much faster than ASP because it runs in its own memory space while ASP uses an overhead server and a COM based architecture.
2. Less Expensive Software
In working with PHP, most tools associated with the program are open source software, such as WordPress, so you need not pay for them. As for ASP, you might need to buy additional tools to work with its programs.
3. Less Expensive Hosting
ASP programs need to run on Windows servers with IIS installed. Hosting companies need to purchase both of these components in order for ASP to work, this often results in a more expensive cost for monthly hosting services. On the other hand, a PHP would only require running on a Linux server, which is available through a hosting provider at no additional cost.
4. Database Flexibility
PHP is flexible for database connectivity. It can connect to several databases the most commonly used is the MySQL. MySQL can be used for free. If ASP is used, MS-SQL, a Microsoft product must be purchased.
5. Increased Available Programming Talent
PHP is used more often creating a larger pool of talent to choose from for modifications and building and lowering the cost per hour for those services. And making it easier to find someone to update your site in the future if you choose to hire a staff member for the task or work with an alternate provider than the one who built your site.

Laravel

After reviewing Google trend comparisons, there are no doubts to say that laravel become most popular PHP framework of 2016. Now, some best features and specification about laravel, so we would say Loudly laravel is the best framework.

Laravel is built with unit testing in mind. In fact, support for testing with PHPUnit is included out of the box, and a phpunit.xml file is already setup for your application.

smartSense has got super proficient Laravel developers in our team. We provide best IT Services in UK, USA, Australia.

Other key features of Laravel:

Restful routing.
Inherent Database Version control
A lightweight Blade Templating Engine
Composer – An amazing tool that lets you manage your application’s third-party packages easily.
Comes bundled with Eloquent
Built-in unit testing and simply readable impressive syntax
Larger Community catering to thousands of programming geeks and application developers
Intelligently designed to offer incredible flexibility to developers that help them create each and everything from small sites to giant enterprise applications.

If you want to love beautiful code then laravel can do that. Laravel is built to be simple, easy to learn and supports rapid application development.

Laravel comes with its own templating engine named “Blade”. The best thing about Blade is that it allows you to write plain PHP in the templates which essentially means that Blade brings no performance overheads to your application.

Laravel team has recently released “Lumen”, a micro PHP framework for the web developers who like to build lightning fast API’s as well as Laravel based services.

Now you understand why we suggest Laravel to all our clients for backend development if need to go with PHP.

CodeIgniter

Codeigniter is another popular PHP framework which is develop using most famous architectural the model-view-controller design pattern and its consider by lots of companies as a most user-friendly framework for small to large scale project.

Key features of CodeIgniter