[Kiro]

How does this compare to other PHP frameworks?

[diggan]

It's very easy to get going with and to learn.

It has good documentation (available here[0] for version four) and the code is filled with comments if the documentation isn't enough.

It uses "Eloquent ORM" which makes it so easy to handle data with Active Record.

RESTful controllers makes it easy to handle the request.

And much more, which is why you need to read the documentation to understand why it's different.

[0] http://four.laravel.com

[wesley]

Easier to develop for thanks to the great syntax, but unfortunately slower than everything except symfony.

[kyriakos]

my take: - easy to use / learning curve is not steep - very well documented - contains the basics (no do-it-all overblown class library like Zend)