Sorry for late reply but I am genuinely curious on how you think PHP is a web framework? At best you can say it has routing built in, but no one even uses just php files as they are for "routing" anymore. How else is it a web framework? Especially over other scripting languages like Ruby that have a strong focus on web dev, but are just languages?
No actually you don't what a programming language is! PHP is a web programming language ( Not a General purpose one though ) which is completely a different stuff from a framework. Laravel is a framework written in PHP. Like the fucking Django framework which you can't think of any other modern technology. I loathe dinos who just stick to an old programming language ( like C )