best framework for php

I tryied Laravel and I like it
never tryed Zend
and Codeigniter....I had bad experiences
cannot upgrade easilly

I lasted almost of days and night programming to crack CMS running on codeiniter
I also had hard coding in framework, but it's too deep to change
then at the end, the sh!t was that mysql/mysqli or everything else drivers have to be upgraded
so the only way was to upgrade framework...to result something about connexion
problems from export from localhost to host

when I had a look on web I didnt found out right solution
but I found out even more problems of compability with this framework