What is this... comparing a framework with a language? Compare Laravel with Rails, or PHP with RUBY... not RAILS.
That to me sounds like a fair way to approach it. Having said that, my experience of the PHP framework is this post, and while the goals sound similar, the teams behind them could be interpreting them in very different ways, which wooild lead to the differences seen.
TYPO3 Flow Enterprise PHP Framework
It's "We want to be java but not be java" all over again. Which means it's Zend framework all over again.