I've been a PHP developer for 10+ years and I would say learning Laravel is good place to start since it's the most popular choice for "PHP" companies. However,

I've been a PHP developer for 10+ years and I would say learning Laravel is good place to start since it's the most popular choice for "PHP" companies. However, am I the only one who feels like web frameworks (in OOP langs) stopped evolving after Rails? If I were to develop a new software product with PHP today, I would develop and deploy it as a phar. I'm not sure if there are any modern frameworks that do this however. My advice is make sure your PHP code works and can be tested without a framework or a server.