Frameworks - Am I the only person here who doesn't use one, and wouldn't use one? And by framework I mean a commerical framework like symphony, Interakt etc.
Infact I think I can expand this a little further, as I won't even use PEAR, CURL, smarty or anything similar, if I can make it myself I will, unless ofcourse it's something big like gdimage. How about the rest of you? or am I alone in my belief that it's best practise to not be as independent from external packages as possible?
Here a bit of what's prompted me to ask this:
2 weeks ago I just completed writing my own httprequest objects, after reading every line of the HTTP1.1 rfc's, and was mighty proud of it, and pleased with the minimal filesize.
I've been working on various projects as part of a contract for an agency, where again they use a framework (interakt). Every site I've worked on has been over 10mb of php scripts, even though they are only 5-10 page functional sites. I've had to use dreamweaver, frameworks, phpmyadmin and all the extra "make life easier" gubbins you can think of, couldn't get into servers as the VPN's where locked down from there side, and it's been hours of hitches like that. To make things more of a turn off for me, I've literally been fixing bugs in TNG that they've had outstanding for a few months, and all because the "developers" could only develop using frameworks.. surely that's not PHP??? To be completely honest, I can't wait to get back to textpad, putty and a command line.
*looks for the rants forum*