What framework do you prefer?
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What framework do you prefer?
With all the talk about frameworks going on in PHP Theory and Design, I thought I'd start a poll just to see how many people use a framework and if so, which one.
EDIT: I meant to add an "other" but oh well post your other if you don't use any of the above.
EDIT: I meant to add an "other" but oh well post your other if you don't use any of the above.
- John Cartwright
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I'm not going to vote on this one because I am somewhat tied between two frameworks.. beings CakePHP and Zend Framework. I would push towards Zend Framework when it is actually completed (don't forget what you download now is only the preview release 0.14 I believe). I think it's not really fair to even compare ZF to other frameworks at the moment either.
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I'm currently refactoring a small framework I built quickly (it showed since it was poorly designed and not well tested
). Mainly because I need something specific for building PHP games and small apps which need to run well on a shared host with performance issues. I'm currently calling it Partholan and thinking of farming it out to other projects I'm involved in - the newer code is a lot cleaner and I'm very happy with it.
Outside that I have found ezComponents and the Zend Framework very worth working with. I tend to prefer frameworks which don't bind you into a preset structure. Cake actually allows external libs to be used, so that's a strong point for me.
Outside that I have found ezComponents and the Zend Framework very worth working with. I tend to prefer frameworks which don't bind you into a preset structure. Cake actually allows external libs to be used, so that's a strong point for me.
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I'm about 1 or 2 more days of non-productive learning time away from just scrapping the idea of using it... the cost of relearning is too big. I have work to do
It's irritating because I built a news module in about 2 hours that works BEAUTIFULLY with cake, but any other task seems like it would be easier just to build from scratch!
EDIT: 2 hours later: I'm building my own!! I changed my mind!!

It's irritating because I built a news module in about 2 hours that works BEAUTIFULLY with cake, but any other task seems like it would be easier just to build from scratch!
EDIT: 2 hours later: I'm building my own!! I changed my mind!!
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I've downloaded WACT and have been crawling their site to come to grips with this framework. I am really enjoying some of it's features although it is kind of hard to understand the framework itself with such lacking documents. I have setup a new page controller, although I have no idea how to dispatch new controllers..sweatje wrote:WACT
Would you mind posting a controller either here, or via PM to give me a kick start on this new framework please?
I am new to this wole frameworks thing. I didnt even know there were frameworks for php.
It was so much fuzz about RoR that i started to read about the current situation.. i thought php woudl be soon death.
Well... i guess you missed some really hot ones::
PHPontrax
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synfony
well... i myself prefer handcodding, i dont get along with this MVC thing... in fact i am not so much found of OOP.
There is a set of them who try to copy rails but then there is reall php frameworks. From what i saw arround symfony is BY FAR the most developed and the most documented... i think if i ever use any of those it will be symfony.
All the others claim to be the best but they look everything but simple to use.
For some reason almost all of them have video tutorials, and for some other weird reason they allways have a mac ( ????? what da..????? ) . Most of the times they generate a lot of code, then they just go and delete it... if thats what their wonderfull frameworks are for...
well... i dont use any framwork, at least at the moment, and i dont get so well along IDEs either.. i dont so much se the point of using an IDE for a scripting language... but thats fine.
Text highlight and some other basic editor features are everything i need, and ofcourse... php.net
By the way...
phpbb, vbulletin, wordpress, mambo, etc etc all those cms, forum, bolg scripts out there... are they developed using an mvc approach or are they 'hand-coded'?
It was so much fuzz about RoR that i started to read about the current situation.. i thought php woudl be soon death.
Well... i guess you missed some really hot ones::
PHPontrax
cookie
synfony
well... i myself prefer handcodding, i dont get along with this MVC thing... in fact i am not so much found of OOP.
There is a set of them who try to copy rails but then there is reall php frameworks. From what i saw arround symfony is BY FAR the most developed and the most documented... i think if i ever use any of those it will be symfony.
All the others claim to be the best but they look everything but simple to use.
For some reason almost all of them have video tutorials, and for some other weird reason they allways have a mac ( ????? what da..????? ) . Most of the times they generate a lot of code, then they just go and delete it... if thats what their wonderfull frameworks are for...
well... i dont use any framwork, at least at the moment, and i dont get so well along IDEs either.. i dont so much se the point of using an IDE for a scripting language... but thats fine.
Text highlight and some other basic editor features are everything i need, and ofcourse... php.net
By the way...
phpbb, vbulletin, wordpress, mambo, etc etc all those cms, forum, bolg scripts out there... are they developed using an mvc approach or are they 'hand-coded'?