[cprayingmantis]

I highly highly recommend writing your own MVC framework. I did this about three years ago because I was tired of working with Laravel which I didn't fully understand or appreciate at the time. Building your own forces you to take apart other frameworks and see how they run and really ask yourself what you would do different. It's a small enough project for you to play with for a week or two and really get a better understanding of how modern web applications are put together and how they could be put together better.