[Phpwm] Framework for a Noob

[David Goodwin]

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Asif.Rahman at cexp.co.uk wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I've been lurking here for a while now and now want to break that habit.
| My background is as an analyst for EDI messaging but I have a growing
| interest in PHP. The company I work for has been using MS SQL Server and
| Access for developing applications and the cracks are really beginning to
| show. I've been tasked with finding a replacement platform for building
| applications that do things that the main ERP can't do.
|
| A while ago I had some PHP training at Open Advantage and this has been
| useful (thanks Elliot!). I am curious what people think of using PHP as
| opposed to Ruby or Java and with PHP would anyone recommend using one of
| the many frameworks that are available like Cake, Symfony or Codeigniter?
|

Hello Mr Lurker :)

Framework wise - most of them have videos / quick starts on their
website, which if watched may give you some feel of whether they would
fit with your preferred way of working.

Cake, Symfony and CodeIgnitor are pretty much full stack frameworks,
which do everything. If you'd rather pick and choose (perhaps you have
existing php knowledge/libraries/way of working) then you might want to
look at the Zend Framework (you can use this as a full stack framework,
but the dependencies between it's various modules are quite low, so it's
not an all or nothing).

Code Igniter (and it's fork Kohana - http://kohanaphp.com/home.html )
are supposed to be very quick and simple to use, while the others tend
to do more 'magic' stuff in the background (so I've heard anyway).

Personally I don't use any of the above, as we've developed our own
framework, but over time it's becoming more Zend-Framework-ified.

Thanks
David.

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David Goodwin

[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
[ http://www.codepoets.co.uk       ]
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