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PHP

PHP Framework for Ecommerce

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for some guidance to find a scalable PHP framework for an Ecommerce website. I will also be leveraging bootstrap.

I'm considering CakePHP, Laravel and CodeIgniter.

The Ecommerce will have the usual items:

  • Dynamic homepage
  • Category pages
  • Search
  • Prodcut details page
  • Datafeed integration
  • CMS
  • Blog (will be using WordPress)
  • Forum (vBulletin)

My goal is to have a PHP framework that can be scaled.

2 Answers

You might check into HHVM a possible PHP replacement by Facebook.

Could you explain, how HHVM is a PHP replacement? Just taking a glance at the home page, suggests that HHVM is a virual machine in which PHP is actually ran/compiled to C++ so it runs faster at run time, so I may be a bit confused.

I should have worded that differently and this was rather new to me as well.

HHVM was designed to replace the Zend Engine used by PHP and HHVM is written in Hack. There's a HHVM and Hack series on SitePoint that provides more details.

Did you end up choosing a framework?