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I also notice that doing a search on amazon.com gives me the following counts on books devoted to the frameworks you found. I did an advanced search for "php" as a keyword and the framework name in the title. Zend results for other Zend products (PHP cert training and Zend Studio) were filtered out. CodeIgniter 3 (1 of those a brief on a special subject) Symfony 1 CakePHP 2 (removing one in German) Zend Framework 3 (1 of those available for pre-order) There is another alternative for PHP developers interested in using an MVC framework. If I were in that position, I'd check out "Rails for PHP Developers" in the Pragmatic Programmers series. Chris Cloutman, David wrote: > This morning I was curious to see how the battle for domination between > PHP frameworks was shaping up, and which one was most economically > sensible for a developer with limited time to learn. I thought I'd share > my results with the list, as this may be of interest to some of you. > > To gauge the demand for knowledge of particular frameworks, I did an > informal survey of job descriptions on the SF Bay Area Craigslist's job > posting. (I did not look act gigs--computers.) I entered the query "php > framework" and got 38 results. Of these, I threw out results that were > looking for someone to work primarily in another language (such as C#, > Java, Python, etc.) or doing something not particularly PHP oriented, > such as client-side development. I also threw out duplicates (there were > several) and positions where the word framework was used to refer to > something else, such as the LAMP technology stack, or an aspect of the > application to be built. I eliminated 18 positions, leaving me with 20 > descriptions. > > For my purposes, I defined a framework as a piece of prebuilt software > that facilitates the development of Web applications using the MVC > design pattern. Smarty (a template engine), Doctrine (a standalone ORM > utility), and Drupal were described as frameworks twice, once, and once, > respectively. Utilities for other languages such as Spring, Hibernate, > and Django also generated hits, but were not counted. If the job was > clearly a PHP job and mentioned knowledge of a framework or MVC design > patterns as desirable, I counted it as "Unnamed". If more than one > framework was mentioned, I tallied each one named. In those cases, no > job description surveyed named which framework the company used or > favored. > > The results were pretty lopsided: > > Unnamed: 8 > Zend: 11 > CakePHP: 4 > Symfony: 4 > Code Igniter: 2 > > Overwhelmingly, if only one framework was specifically named, it was > Zend. > > I also did a tally of JavaScript libraries named in qualifying > positions. The results are: > > JQuery: 4 > Prototype / Scriptaculous: 3 > Yahoo! UI: 1 > ExtJS: 1 > Dojo: 1 > > Given my small sample size, I don't think these results are quite as > conclusive. > > - David > > Email Disclaimer: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/nav/misc/EmailDisclaimer.cfm >