rakesh-sankar/php-history

A list of the years-of-introductions of notable (to me) PHP framework and library projects.

A History Of PHP Frameworks/Library Collections

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

Need:

• Kohana (all versions)

• Fuel (all versions)

• Slim (all versions)

• Cake (2 and 3)

• Horde (versions after 1)

• PAT (aka PHP Application Tools, all versions)

• zetaComponents / ezComponents (all versions)

• Composer (for demarcation of PEAR packaging history)

pre-2000

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

2000

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

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

2005

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

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

2006

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

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

• Symfony: https://web.archive.org/web/20060209024250/http://www.symfony-project.com/

2010

• Lithium: https://web.archive.org/web/20101125064404/http://lithify.me/

• 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

2011

• Laravel 1 and 2: http://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/history-of-laravel-php-framework-eloquence-emerging/

2012

• Laravel 3: http://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/history-of-laravel-php-framework-eloquence-emerging/

• Phalcon: http://blog.phalconphp.com/search/release

2013

• Laravel 4: http://wiki.laravel.io/Laravel_4

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

2015

• Laravel 5: TBD

• Zend Framework 3: TBD