It looks very nice. If I happen to write a project on PHP, I'll sure give it a try.<p>They didn't tag v4.0 release on github, hence the zip package link is 404.<p><a href="https://github.com/laravel/laravel/archive/4.0.zip" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/laravel/laravel/archive/4.0.zip</a><p>You can instead fetch master:<p><a href="https://github.com/laravel/laravel/archive/master.zip" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/laravel/laravel/archive/master.zip</a>
I love Laravel, it's the simplest and most expressive PHP framework that I've used, and it does everything I want it to do out of the box. I really like that Laravel 4's API is practically identical to Laravel 3, too.<p>Btw you can browse the code on GitHub if you don't want to download it: <a href="https://github.com/laravel/framework" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/laravel/framework</a>
The beta hasn't actually been officially announced yet. As of this comment it's still in a pre-beta stage. Taylor will announce the beta sometime on Monday, as per the following tweet: <a href="https://twitter.com/laravelphp/status/289880193580032001" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/laravelphp/status/289880193580032001</a>
PHP frameworks are finally becoming sane. Instead of re-inventing the wheel ,they share popular components wether it is from doctrine , symfony , etc ... The PSR stuff and composer is a huge step in the right direction , we are getting there , at last.
another promise framework is Silex based on Symfony , it's easy to wire any symfony component through services and unlike Laravel it doesnt rely on Static methods or Singletons.
silex.sensiolabs.org/