[conradfr]

Mostly look at Symfony, the framework or the individual components. It's a bit too "enterprise Java" sometimes but otherwise it's very solid (and a very well run project).

Laravel seems more popular in the US but it stills uses many Symfony components.

[trm42]

Although Laravel promotes ways of coding that keeps the code readable and more fun that the traditional Symfony/Java way (Like really long class namespaces and names that have redundant strings in them etc).

Laravel uses Symfony components but the APIs are a lot more fluent and more natural to use.