The Adminxweb site has put together some framework benchmarks for several of the popular frameworks out there, some of which you may not have heard of before.

There are various PHP frameworks and they all have different speeds. The only way to judge a framework by its speed is by benchmarking - conducting tests and comparing the results. [...] Comparing various benchmarks is less of a scientific comparison and more of a subjective application. So in this post, I will review the performance of these frameworks according to the same metrics. This will allow us to arrive at the closest thing there is to an objective winner.

Among the ones they profiled, the DooPHP framework was the only one that came up with a 10 of 10 rating based on speed. It's compared to other frameworks like CodeIgniter, symfony, Solar and the Zend Framework. Take the findings with a grain of salt, however - the author doesn't provide the methods she used to arrive at the numbers. If you would like something with a bit more substance, check out Paul Jones' framework benchmarking tool posted on github.

PHPBuilder.com has posted their review of one of their previously mentioned "lightweight frameworks" - DooPHP.

If you'd like to quickly build a simple dynamic website, adopting any of the many so-called lightweight PHP frameworks (10 of which I introduced in the article Top 10 Lightweight Frameworks for PHP Development) might make sense. In fact I've recently been experimenting with one of the frameworks introduced in the aforementioned article, namely DooPHP, and have been so impressed by its capabilities that I wanted to put together a short tutorial highlighting my favorite features.

He walks you through the setup of the framework and the process of creating a basic page - setting up routing, making a controller and adding an action. He also shows how to create a view, layout and how you can use the built-in model functionality to work with your tables.

The DooPHP framework has officially laid their claim on being one of the "fastest MVC based PHP frameworks available" with features like URI routing, RESTful API support, ORM support and a flexible license.

DooPHP is a rapid development framework for PHP using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM, reduces development costs and helps developers write less code. The framework itself is designed with main focus on its core performance rather than the wide range of features. It is for those who need a more structured project but do not wish to spend much time on learning a framework or a new language.

Features included in the framework are things like: internationalization support, templating, logging/profiling, E_STRICT compliance and being "Ajax friendly". If you're interested in seeing just how fast the framework is in comparison, check out their benchmarks.

They seem a little bit suspicious, though, in comparison to some other numbers generated by the Yii framework project.