PHP is one of the widely used language for web development. However, due to the unstructured development model, the code of data access, process of business logic and web presentations were mixed. It confuses and causes problems for the web developers. On contrary, PHP framework provide basic structure for building web applications thereby helping developer in promoting rapid application development (RAD). It helps to save time, reduce repetitive code and the application can be built with more stability. This is due to the fact that the framework uses the concept called Model View Controller (MVC) to overcome the issue of plain PHP. The paper presents basic concepts of PHP frameworks and also the overview of top 5 PHP framework based on the usage stats.