But have you heard the news? Zend has announced they are developing a web application framework for PHP which is apparently going to have a license open enough for enterprises to use without any possible IP conflicts.

http://www.zend.com/collaboration/framework-overview.php

I have looked around for rails-like frameworks for PHP and while there are dozens available, only a small handful look even remotely usable. Of that handful, however, they are horrendously (if at all) documented and therefore not even considerable for anything but hacking around recreationally.

It will be interested to see what Zend can do for the PHP community. A framework with the same level of refinement and polish as rails could really put PHP back into good grace. It’s taken a beating the last while because of the lack of some centralized control to keep the library standards up.