If you're looking for a modern framework, I would recommend http://fuelphp.com http://fuelphp.com. It doesnt have the size of community that a codeigniter or ca

If you're looking for a modern framework, I would recommend http://fuelphp.com http://fuelphp.com. It doesnt have the size of community that a codeigniter or cakephp will have, but it leverages a lot of the great MVC framework features that Rails launches with.