title: How to best select a PHP framework - Laravel, Symfony, Zend, Etc
body: <p>My company wants to adopt a PHP framework and I am being asked to decide which one to use going forward.</p>
  
  <p>Our requirements are simple</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>It must be part of the php-fig</li>
  <li>Must look like it will be around &amp; active for at least another 10 years</li>
  <li>Must have a healthy community</li>
  <li>Must have libraries/bundles/modules/packages/etc or whatever they are called that we can draw on to speed up development.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Using the above criteria I have found frameworks that I like</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Symfony -> Seems to be an industry leader / feels a little over engineered</li>
  <li>Laravel -> very popular at the moment and easy to use/understand</li>
  <li>Zend -> Zend 1 hurt my feelings and I have never really forgiven it, I am just not comfortable with Zend</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I would like to use Laravel but point 2 above concerns me as its really driven by one person, even though there is s strong community, that one person still has too strong an influence its not like Drupal where if Dries goes away the community will not crumble, I feel that if Tyler goes then Laravel will fall. And as much as I like it I don't want to tie my company to that wagon.</p>
  
  <p><strong>This question is NOT about which framework is better BUT how to best decide on selecting a framework for your Company</strong></p>