PHP is one of the oldest and most popular web development languages, with Laravel standing out as its most widely used framework. Choosing the right framework for your application is often challenging in the early stages of development. Factors like development cost, team expertise, framework popularity, third-party integrations, deployment, and testing must all be carefully evaluated. PHP offers various powerful frameworks, including Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, Yii 2, Phalcon, CakePHP, Zend, and Slim. Among them, Laravel consistently ranks as the top PHP MVC framework. Laravel's popularity is evident from its status as a trending repository on GitHub, boasting nearly 45,000 stars and counting. But why does Laravel continue to dominate? In this blog, we explore why Laravel remains the leading PHP framework, meeting the diverse needs of modern web applications.