PHP framework for non-standard projects?

Question

PHP

Tell me which php MVC framework to take to study and create "atypical" sites. By “atypical” I mean not a blog, not a CMS, not an online store, not a social network. Applications will be written for the enterprise, to collect and process all sorts of statistics (and not only)
I managed to work with Django, I liked it, but for such projects there are not enough ORM capabilities, I often have to write raw queries for complex aggregations. But I really like form validation, creating forms from a model, generic views, templates and almost everything else.
Once I tried Symfony, but in general I did not like it. Also CodeIgniter, it seemed better.
It is desirable that there are no problems with PHP5.3. The base will be PostgreSQL. From wishlist - what you liked about django

Answer 1

Pay attention to Yii

Answer 2

Yii has a built-in ORM ( Active Record ).

Answer 3

ORM can be taken separately. Propel or Doctrine

Answer 4

Symfony2: Doctrine2, DependencyInjection, SOA and everything that Java developers dreamed about when faced with PHP ))

Answer 5

codeigniter is good, but working with the database is limited to active record + your queries with handles ... the main advantage of this framework is the simplest internal syntax in my opinion
if you need an ORM then look towards Kohana 3

Answer 6

I use CodeIgniter. Good easy understandable. In the new version, they promise to establish compatibility with php 5.3.