"In praise of PHP Frameworks Laravel and Symfony"
It's a shame that that article was just a (mostly) content-free puff piece, with no comments allowed, as it's a topic that it would have been good to have some commentariat discussions on… :-(
(Disclaimer: I quite like PHP; it's fairly easy to get started with (and its documentation is pretty good), but that's not to say that it doesn't have various weaknesses and idiosyncracies. But knowing what I now know about PHP, after having used it for a number of years, would I still want to use it for starting new projects now? I'm not so sure. It certainly gained a lot of its popularity by being in the right place at the right time when web applications started to really take off…)