Advocates of different PHP development frameworks squared off in a debate of sorts Thursday, with each touting the merits of their particular entrant.

Zend Technologies will on March 17 deliver version 1.5 of Zend Framework, its open-source PHP development framework.

CodeIgniter, a PHP MVC (model view controller) framework sponsored by Ellis Labs, touts itself as a solution for those developers who eschew large, over-abundant frameworks. CodeIgniter’s ...