PHP, meet elegance. Laravel 3 has arrived.

I have used this framework, I have to say, elegant is the correct way to describe it. It is very simple, intuitive and very performant (I think it is faster than CodeIgniter for a helloworld no db call benchmark).

Several limiting factors are there however, the migrations functionality is a bit weak, it supports many databases so you can't really go specifics (ex: changing database engine, it's INNODB by default) The orm is very straightforward, it works but it's slightly too simplistic, I found my self hand code a couple of times.

All in all: A++++ great framework!! will use again!!

People seem to spend a lot of time trying to get PHP to be more like Rails, Django, Node/Express, Play and similar, people seem to think it's OK for the entire application to need to be re-initialized on every request (LazyLoading classes) instead of just running the setup once and then handling requests. PHP has it's advantages but why re-invent the wheel using marshmallows?