1. Yii (http://www.yiiframework.com/)

URL: http://www.yiiframework.com/
Blog: n/a.
Documentation: http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/
Download : http://www.yiiframework.com/download/

Yii is a high-performance component-based PHP framework for developing large-scale Web applications. Yii is written in strict OOP and comes with thorough class reference and comprehensive tutorials. From MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, widgets, caching, hierarchical RBAC, Web services, to theming, I18N and L10N, Yii provides nearly every feature needed by today’s Web 2.0 application development. And all these come without incurring much overhead. As a matter of fact, Yii is one of the most efficient PHP frameworks around.

2. Akelos PHP Framework (http://www.akelos.org/)

URL: http://www.akelos.org/
Blog: n/a.
Documentation: http://www.akelos.org/docs
Download : http://www.akelos.org/download
Forum : http://forum.akelos.org/

The Akelos PHP Framework is a web application development platform based on the MVC (Model View Controller) design pattern. Based on good practices, it allows you to:

• Write views using Ajax easily
• Control requests and responses through a controller
• Manage internationalized applications
• Communicate models and the database using simple conventions.

3. Symfony (http://www.symfony-project.com/)

URL: http://www.symfony-project.com/
Blog: http://www.symfony-project.org/blog/
Documentation:http://www.symfony-project.org/doc/1_1/
Download : http://www.symfony-project.org/installation
Community : http://www.symfony-project.org/community

Symfony is a web application framework for PHP projects.It aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.The very small number of prerequisites make symfony easy to install on any configuration; you just need Unix or Windows with a web server and PHP installed. It is compatible with almost every database system. In addition, it has a very small overhead, so the benefits of the framework don’t come at the cost of an increase of hosting costs.

4. phpdevshell (http://www.phpdevshell.org/)

URL: http://www.phpdevshell.org/
Blog: n/a.
Documentation: http://www.phpdevshell.org/docs
Download : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=184502

PHPDevShell stands out for  its already written GUI. Plug-in already written scripts or develop your own for PHPDevShell, without the hassle of developing all the repeating requirements of a general web application. PHPDevShell does most for the developer in its core, this includes Navigation, Hooks, Security, Registration, Theming, Logs, Search Filtering, Caching, Database Layer, Mailing, etc… This is wrapped with a well designed GUI interface providing User Management, Role Management, Group

5. Codeigniter. (http://codeigniter.com/)

URL: http://codeigniter.com/|
Blog: n/a.
Documentation: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/
Download : http://codeigniter.com/downloads/
Forums:http://codeigniter.com/forums/

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you’re a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you’re tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks

5.Cake PHP. (http://www.cakephp.org/)

URL: http://www.cakephp.org/
Blog: n/a.
Documentation: http://book.cakephp.org/
Download : http://cakeforge.org/frs/?group_id=23&release_id=426

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORMwithin the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.