Last Saturday, the Bangalore PHP User Group conducted a meeting. The venue was same as the last time, Microsoft office, Bangalore! The topic of the meeting was Framework Shootout. The frameworks represented were:

• Zend Framework
• CakePHP
• Symfony
• WordPress

I was glad to get an opportunity to represent the Zend Framework. The slides I presented with Ganesh H S can be downloaded or viewed online at SlideShare.

I liked all the presentations. Personally, I believe Zend Framework and Symfony are the two PHP5 frameworks you would want to seriously consider using in your projects. The strengths and weaknesses of each framework varies. In a previous post we discussed the reasons to use Zend Framework. Sjoerd de Jong has offered to conduct training sessions on Symfony for free.

Today, the Bangalore PHP User Group had a meeting. The meetup.com site reports that sixty eight people attended the meeting. The venue was at Microsoft. The increasing participation of Microsoft in PHP conferences and meetings have taken many by surprise. Microsoft were kind enough to offer free Pizza for all the attendees.

They have given me a copy of Windows 7 Release Candidate which expires on June 1, 2010. If time permits, I will sure try to install it as a virtual guest.