A History Of PHP Frameworks/Library Collections

These are the years-of-introduction of various notable frameworks and library collection projects.

pre-2000

• Phplib: http://www.sanisoft.com/phplib/manual/

2000

• Horde 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20000303030737/http://web.horde.org/

• Pear 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20001017231542/http://pear.php.net/

2001

• PAT (PHP Application Tools): http://www.php-tools.net/site.php?file=news/archive2001.xml

2002

• Horde 2: http://marc.info/?l=horde-dev&m=101003795801512&w=4

• Phrame: https://web.archive.org/web/20021119091123/http://phrame.itsd.ttu.edu/

2003

• Mojavi: http://web.archive.org/web/20040520071127/http://www.mojavi.org/ , released October 22nd, 2003

• Seagull: https://sourceforge.net/projects/seagull/files/Seagull%20old%20releases/seagull.0.3.3.p1-beta

2004

• WACT: http://web.archive.org/web/20060222022339/http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=wact-announce

• Prado version 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20060514124647/http://www.xisc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7 Sep 13, 2004

• Horde 3: https://web.archive.org/web/20041229092356/http://www.horde.org/ Dec 23, 2004

2005

• Solar (nee "Hive"): http://paul-m-jones.com/archives/105

• CakePHP: https://web.archive.org/web/20050416071448/http://sputnik.pl/cake/

• Agavi: http://web.archive.org/web/20050710000645/http://www.agavi.org/

• Prado version 2: https://web.archive.org/web/20060322070507/http://www.xisc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1044 Mar 15, 2005

• Symfony: https://web.archive.org/web/20051023011952/http://www.symfony-project.com/

• ezComponents (later Zeta Components): http://ezcomponents.org/download/dl_components

• QCodo: http://web.archive.org/web/20051204033658/http://www.qcodo.com/downloads/

• TinyMVC: https://github.com/mohrt/tinymvc-php/blob/master/NEWS

2006

• CodeIgniter 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20060303085522/http://www.codeigniter.com/

• Zend Framework: https://web.archive.org/web/20060404214442/http://framework.zend.com/

• Prado version 3: https://web.archive.org/web/20060514124523/http://www.xisc.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1&topicdays=0&start=0

2007

• Kohana 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohana_(framework) July 2007

• Kohana 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohana_(framework) November 2007

2008

• Yii version 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20081007231834/http://www.yiiframework.com/ December 3rd 2008

2009

• Kohana 3: https://github.com/kohana/kohana/releases/tag/3.0

• Lithium: https://twitter.com/1marc/status/5179954058

2010

• Zend Framework 2: https://github.com/zendframework/zf2/commit/fbde290971b7dda54d11f90e1f84c9818392f21d

• Symfony 2: https://web.archive.org/web/20110317011324/http://symfony.com/

• Aura (essentially Solar 2): http://paul-m-jones.com/archives/1738

• Slim 1.0: https://github.com/codeguy/Slim/wiki/Road-Map#version-10-released-november-2-2010

2011

• CodeIgniter 2: https://web.archive.org/web/20110805025800/http://codeigniter.com/news/codeigniter_2.0.0_released/

• FuelPHP: https://philsturgeon.uk/blog/2011/01/introducing-fuelphp/

• Horde 4: http://www.techworld.com.au/article/382641/open_source_horde_groupware_reaches_version_4/

• Laravel 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20121025120359/http://forums.laravel.com/viewtopic.php?id=29

• Laravel 2: https://web.archive.org/web/20121025120041/http://forums.laravel.com/viewtopic.php?id=403

• CakePHP 2: http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/lorenzo/2011/10/16/cakephp_2_0_released

• Typo3 Flow 1: http://typo3.org/about/the-history-of-typo3/

• Composer: http://nelm.io/blog/2011/12/composer-part-1-what-why/

2012

• Laravel 3: https://web.archive.org/web/20121025120144/http://forums.laravel.com/viewtopic.php?id=573

• Slim 2.0: https://github.com/codeguy/Slim/releases/tag/2.0.0

• Phalcon 0.3.0: https://blog.phalcon.io/post/phalcon-0-3-0-released

• Nette 2: https://github.com/nette/nette/tree/v2.0.0

2013

• CodeIgniter announces "end-of-life": https://ellislab.com/blog/entry/ellislab-seeking-new-owner-for-codeigniter

• Laravel 4: http://forumsarchive.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?id=9146

• Aura 2: http://auraphp.com/blog/2013/09/30/lessons-learned

• League of Extraordinary Packages (nee PHP Super Best Friends Club): https://twitter.com/philsturgeon/status/322409684151701504

• Joomla! Framework 1: http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5521-joomla-framework-1-0-released.html

• Slim 2.3.0: https://github.com/codeguy/Slim/releases/tag/2.3.0

• Phalcon 1.0.0: https://blog.phalcon.io/post/phalcon-1-0-released

• Swoole 1.6.7: https://pecl.php.net/package/swoole/1.6.7

2014

• CodeIgniter changes owners: https://ellislab.com/blog/entry/your-favorite-php-framework-codeigniter-has-a-new-home

• Yii 2: http://www.yiiframework.com/news/81/yii-2-0-0-is-released/

• Silex 1: http://silex.sensiolabs.org/doc/master/changelog.html

• PHPixie 2: https://phpixie.com/blog/new-phpixie-database-and-configuration-libraries.html

2015

• Laravel 5: https://laravel-news.com/2015/02/laravel-5-released/

• CakePHP 3: http://bakery.cakephp.org/2015/03/22/CakePHP-3-0-0-is-Here.html

• CodeIgniter 3: http://forum.codeigniter.com/thread-1657.html

• Aura 3: http://auraphp.com/blog/2015/12/01/aura-3-stable-releases

• Phalcon 2.0.0: https://blog.phalcon.io/post/phalcon-2-released

• Slim 3.0.0: http://www.slimframework.com/2015/12/07/slim-3.html

• Symfony 3.0.0: http://symfony.com/blog/symfony-3-0-0-released

• Simple MVC Framework 2.1: https://packagist.org/packages/simple-mvc-framework/v2#v2.1

2016

• Phalcon 3.0.0: https://blog.phalcon.io/post/phalcon-3-0-0-released

• Zend Framework 3: https://framework.zend.com/blog/2016-06-28-zend-framework-3.html

• PHPixie 3: https://github.com/PHPixie/Framework/releases

• Silex 2: http://silex.sensiolabs.org/doc/master/changelog.html

• NOVA Framework 3: https://github.com/nova-framework/framework/tree/3.0-nova

• Swoole 2.0.8: https://pecl.php.net/package/swoole/2.0.8

2017

• Symfony 4: https://symfony.com/releases/4.0

2018

• Swoole 4: https://pecl.php.net/package/swoole/4.0.0

2019

• ReactPHP: https://github.com/reactphp/reactphp/releases/tag/v1.0.0

• Zend Framework becomes Laminas: https://framework.zend.com/blog/2019-04-17-announcing-laminas.html

• Symfony 5: https://symfony.com/releases/5.0

• Slim 4: https://www.slimframework.com/2019/08/01/slim-4.0.0-release.html

• Laravel 6: https://github.com/laravel/laravel/releases/tag/v6.0.0

• Phalcon 4: https://blog.phalcon.io/post/phalcon-4-0-0-released

• CakePHP 4: https://bakery.cakephp.org/2019/12/15/cakephp_400_released.html

2022

• Phalcon 5: https://blog.phalcon.io/post/phalcon-v5-0-0-and-v5-0-1-released