the True about PHP Frameworks (and Laravel?)

You're amazed by common sense?

Rasmus Lerdorf the original creator of PHP was mostly referring to yes some frameworks can be over inflated.

That said, an example is you are doing a small site, and

• you don't need email
• don't need events
• don't need special notifications etc etc

Then maybe a smaller framework or a custom tailored one would work. He, if you saw the whole thing said everyone needs a framework. But not every application needs a huge one with so much background stuff happening.

I think laravel is good in that a bunch of the stuff it comes with is 100% optional. Taylor doesn't force usage of anything.

Yek even if someone liked writing normal pdo instead of querybuilder or orm, it's there, called getPdo(). I use it for some larger join queries myself.

By far laravel is tops, not because of what it has, rather it's flexibility.

And has a good community, willing to help.