Laravel PHP Framework vs. Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Laravel PHP Framework
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Laravel is a free, open source web application PHP framework.N/A
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Liferay Digital Experience Platform is an enterprise-grade platform that enables companies to create and connect personalized digital experiences across web, mobile, social, in store and other touchpoints. It provides the technical foundation (deep integration, security and modularity) for a digital business to orchestrate unique customer experiences, as well as business value features to support a deeper understanding of their customers.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Laravel PHP FrameworkLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsEmail sales@liferay.com for pricing information.
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Community Pulse
Laravel PHP FrameworkLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Considered Both Products
Laravel PHP Framework
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
I have used CodeIgniter in the past for a couple of projects. As per my experience, we can go for CodeIgniter for smaller projects due to its simplicity. But as the project size grows, one should choose a more organized framework with larger community support. This is the …
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
The majority of the above-mentioned frameworks are good at some particular things. Laravel PHP Framework in general is capable of doing all the same things with standard best practices. Additionally, Laravel PHP Framework brings great community support that is ever-growing. the …
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
Laravel is much better than CodeIgniter in many aspects, First of all it is more secure and robust. It has a great troubleshooting mechanism. They have added more libraries, themes and plug-ins for different purposes. The MVC model helped the developers to get rid of writing …
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
Both frameworks, by in large, serve the same needs and are only dependent upon the platform that will be supported. However, I find .Net to be a bit more robust when it comes to data security needs (encryption, management, etc.) compared to Laravel and that may be a deciding …
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
Different frameworks have their different pros and cons. I cannot compare one framework with another as every product has its own positive impacts.
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
Originally, it was a decision between Zend, CodeIgniter, and CakePHP for me. I chose CakePHP and used it as my main PHP framework for at least a couple of years before noticing and giving Laravel a fair try. Ultimately I selected Laravel because I felt it fit with my preferred …
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
Laravel PHP Framework is the most developed, updated framework right now, with lots of features. Using older versions is less appreciated by the developer community. It is well documented, and Laravel has a pretty big community of supporters getting your query solved faster and …
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
Supporting unit testing is bigger plus point in Laravel than any other framework. Developing with Laravel is much easier. Other frameworks have value in market, but Laravel has taken the lead in popularity among PHP developers in recent years. The large community supports you …
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
If you are using PHP, you should be using Laravel! It is superior in every way to CodeIgniter & CakePHP. Not to be unfair to Cake & CodeIgniter, which both have built in ORM, making queries very simple. Laravel on the other hand offers their eloquent ORM that makes database …
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
Laravel PHP Framework is continuously updating its framework and developing new tools to make web development more useful, optimized, and bug-free. Also there is a large community of users on Stack Overflow and other websites that can help you get questions cleared up quickly. …
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
When we were using CodeIgniter, it always felt that something is missing. We were unable to find the proper libraries that supports it and the support from the community around. Once we came to know about Laravel, we never have touched CodeIgniter. Laravel is a well documented …
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
In my experience, if a development team is using an MVC framework that's not Laravel, they're doing one of two things:

1. Using an older framework like Code Igniter, CakePHP, or one of the many dozen others
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
Laravel is built on top of Symfony so is naturally a better upgrade. It is far superior than cake and igniter (in my opinion). I don't remember, but somewhere in internet someone made a comparison with Laravel and others as racing motor-bike vs a cycle. Because of large …
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
I inherited Laravel projects originally created by other developers. I haven't migrated clients at this time, however as the project gets bigger and I need to find more elaborate workarounds to address needs that option will be put on the table.
Chose Laravel PHP Framework
The best comparison I can make is against Symfony. It's curious that Laravel is built on top of Symfony. They chose the packages that they found to be useful. Symfony for instance comes with way too much stuff that in the end you never use, and Laravel just comes with the right …
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Chose Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) feels more professional than other similar products I tried or used. With this, I mainly mean the look or aspect when you are editing, setting or configuring anything in the platform, wether you are setting users, roles, creating new …
Chose Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
I selected Liferay Experience Digital Platform(DXP) so that I have the use personally.
I use this as this platform have a grear content management that is to be noted.
It takes us to customer acquisition as a much higher level.
Chose Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Great choice for Java based enterprise organizations. Liferay is on the heavier side of CMS systems, and it excels in larger projects but is a waste of time for smaller projects.
Chose Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Alfresco: Very good CMS but not good for presentation or front end technology.
Portofino: Not much scalable and high available CMS.
eXo Platform: Slowly growing in market but not mature community like Liferay and less support from community.
Best Alternatives
Laravel PHP FrameworkLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Small Businesses
CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter
Score 10.0 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Symfony
Symfony
Score 10.0 out of 10
Jahia Digital Experience Platform
Jahia Digital Experience Platform
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises

No answers on this topic

Verint Community
Verint Community
Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Laravel PHP FrameworkLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
8.0
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User Testimonials
Laravel PHP FrameworkLiferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
Likelihood to Recommend
This framework's pros are more than cons. It can be used for many purposes; building e-commerce is one of them.
1. Code is clean and simple because of its routing.
2. Connection to database and query optimizing.
3. The amazing automatic memory to remember past queries is a big plus.
4. Migrations is the most crucial feature of this framework.
5. Supporting unit tests out of the box.
6. Artisan to use command line.
7. Large community to support your queries.
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Lifeary Digital Experience Platform(DXP) is well suited for long meeting, personalisation of data , customer data and customer management in any circumstances. The things in here that are less appropriate are that the picturiastion will be much better. Have individual databases for individual programs and the list of client should be listed systematically.
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Pros
  • Many libraries available which simplify integration of SaaS APIs within your application (eg, MailChimp, Mandrill, Stripe, Authorize.net)
  • Pre-packaged tools to facilitate common tasks when building applications (eg, User Authentication and Authorization, Background Jobs, Queues, etc)
  • Support for a broad set of technologies out of the box (eg, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MemcacheD, BeanstalkD, Redis, etc)
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  • User management
  • Security and access management
  • WYSIWYG
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Cons
  • There isn't a whole lot to dislike about the framework, honestly. If I am forced to say something is that sometimes the authors change the directory layout and it's not always easy to deal with. That being said, I've never not been able to upgrade within a few hours.
  • Sometimes using the artisan CLI - it requires additional tweaking to get it running on non-standard application rollouts.
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  • It requires technical expertise and the right people to achieve customization.
  • There is little documentation available for certain functions that make them a bit complex to master.
  • The SSL function for login.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We are currently using Liferay Portal and plan to keep using it.
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Alternatives Considered
Originally, it was a decision between Zend, CodeIgniter, and CakePHP for me. I chose CakePHP and used it as my main PHP framework for at least a couple of years before noticing and giving Laravel a fair try. Ultimately I selected Laravel because I felt it fit with my preferred development style, it utilized many of the modern best-practices I wanted to follow, and I felt that it allowed me to build better things in less time that seemed more maintainable. I have used, and still do use, Symfony directly for certain things, but I think of it (and use it) more as a code library than as a full application framework. When I'm building a web application, I tend to prefer Laravel.
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Alfresco: Very good CMS but not good for presentation or front end technology. Portofino: Not much scalable and high available CMS. eXo Platform: Slowly growing in market but not mature community like Liferay and less support from community. Microsoft SharePoint: Proprietary Software from Microsoft. Nuxeo ECM Platform: Picking up the market but not mature community and support from the community.
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Return on Investment
  • Positive: Our delivery time for PHP application is faster than usual.
  • Positive: Developers are happy and they write better code with their usual development tools. No tool-upgrade necessary.
  • Negative: Initial delivery took 6 months extra and had to rewrite project several times.
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  • Can reduce IT costs eventually.
  • Increases upfront costs due to technical knowledge needed for initial setup and maintenance.
  • Hard to analyze ROI until after it's totally implemented.
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ScreenShots

Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Screenshots

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