Questions from newbie on PHP Framework.

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kchopne
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Questions from newbie on PHP Framework.

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Hi Everyone,
I will be working with a couple of my friends on PHP. I am relatively a new to PHP and need some help on few things on the same. Here are my doubts

Does one need to take care of PHP 4 compatibility ?

I will be writing a web app to integrate with a social media site like LinkedIn ? Do I need to be specific to the framework selection ?

If one were to use 3rd Party PHP modules does framework selection matter here ? If yes then which framework should one go for in terms of compatibility?

I am inclined towards the Yii framework. Primary reasons - excellent support for web services, authorization & authentication, rich features, enables fastest development. Any suggestions on the same ?

Can anyone recommend some rich UI libraries i.e. jQuery

Thanks everyone in advance.
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PHP 5 was released in 2004. Definitely no need to worry about PHP 4 support. Doing so will only make your code terrible. You won't really go wrong with any modern framework, so I'd pick the one with which most people are familiar.
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Re: Questions from newbie on PHP Framework.

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Yeah, You are right "Celauran" that now, PHP 5 is already released so you dont worry about php 4.
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Re: Questions from newbie on PHP Framework.

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A word of advice: be sure you don't confuse Javascript, jQuery, and Ajax with PHP frameworks. PHP is strictly a server language, the others are browser languages (or extensions to same). The differences are vital for you to understand. In choosing to use a PHP framework, your selection should be based on several issues, including how many programmers will be working on a project, what their prior backgrounds are (are they already familiar with a particular framework), whether you will be working with the same group of programmers on many projects or whether this is mostly a one-time project, how critical the database aspects of the project are, who will be maintaining the websites after initial launch, etc.
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Re: Questions from newbie on PHP Framework.

Post by Christopher »

Forget PHP 4 compatibility.

Working with social media sites is not framework specific, but some frameworks may have prewritten libraries for social media sites.

Check if these 3rd Party PHP modules are already integrated with some frameworks.

Yii is fine. Try several frameworks --they are free.

+1 for jQuery
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Re: Questions from newbie on PHP Framework.

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Here is the step to use jquery with ajax : http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javas ... -xml-file/ just follow them...
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