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I've played around with Larvel and others seems to like it, to be honest I can build stuff in it but I struggle to grasp everything going on behind the scenes, so kinda suck at debugging it... However this is 100% because I'm not a coder, and not a pit fall of the framework.

I actually kinda use my own framework, I learnt php from a Lynda video tutorial, think it was one where you build a blog. Main part of the tutorial is building a framework, and I naturally just started reusing it for my own side projects...

Just built something that sounds pretty similar in Laravel and can vouch for it for sure. I was impressed how little time it took to do some of the things I was trying to do. As it scales up, I'll need to look at some of those things again, but for a quick prototype it was great!

For PHP check out Laravel

laracasts.com is great for learning Laravel.

It would be a good fit for your project.

I've had a great experience with CakePHP, with their cake bake tool, you'd be able to generate most of the boilerplate code for your CRUD