Which PHP framework?
 

I need to go back and do some PHP coding for the first time in a little while. When I last looked into doing some coding I found that the MVC frameworks like cakePHP allowed me to get something almost finished really quickly, and then took ages to sort out what seemed to be really simple problems. I was never quite sure it it was worth the effort.

So - have any of the coders out there used cakePHP, symfony etc? How do you find them? Should I be looking at a non-MVC framework?

Sorry if this isn't quite the right place to ask this - I've not been on here too long and I'm not sure if this is a bit too geeky.

James

If you are doing a bit of PHP coding I would take a look at some of these frameworks - they can really speed up the coding process - or at least they *should* be able to.

Re: Which PHP framework?
 

It would help if you described what you were trying to accomplish with your "PHP coding".

Your question is definitely not too geeky, but there's so many options out there and choosing the best one is highly dependent on what exactly you want to create.. :)

Re: Which PHP framework?
 

I think CakePHP covers 95% of coding tasks and specs.
I did research in the past comparing frameworks for one of my projects and Cake PHP won.
I never got my hands on the project though - lol - but doing that research was quite a bit of analysis.

Gleb

Re: Which PHP framework?
 

You don't say what you want it for. Cake's really good. I like CodeIgniter better, but have 0 experience with cakePHP admittedly. Depending on the site there's also Drupal (awesome for group sites) or even WordPress.

Re: Which PHP framework?
 

I have had a good play with cakePHP in the past - it was great to start off with & then suddenly you hit a brick wall to find out how to do something quite minor. I had a good go at Symfony yesterday - and the documentation seems good. If I actually get round to using it I'll let you how it goes. So far I'm very impressed.

As for Drupal, we use it all the time, but I hadn't thought about using it. It *might* be possible to hack something together with the CCK module.

The project is something mainly in-house for feeding and editing RSS feeds. So we can keep track on what's going on and let people know about it easily.

Re: Which PHP framework?
 

qcodo is very good for event based (windows driven) applications

Re: Which PHP framework?
 

Hmm. I'll check it out, although I only really use Linux & when I'm doing GUI stuff I tend to use python with one of the x-windows libraries.

Re: Which PHP framework?
 

aha - I meant windows as an example of event driven programming- so qcodo is fine for other other platforms also

I haver developed a number of web applications with it, and it really makes life easy if there is a database involved!

its also used by NASA for some of their internal systems :-)

One note - there is a more evolved version of the framework called QCUBED which has a good community around it

good luck with whatever you choose.....

cheers
Tony

Re: Which PHP framework?
 

I'm working on a web statistics program and I'd like to start using a framework that makes editing files really easy.

Can anyone recommend one?

Thanks!

Re: Which PHP framework?
 

if its a database then qcodo or qcubed is probably the best as a lot of the code is generated for you, but I'm not sure which is best for just plain/text files!

Re: Which PHP framework?
 

Well I've actually switched over to using XML files. But I can just ue SimpleXML for that just fine. :)

Re: Which PHP framework?
 

sounds cool :-)

Re: Which PHP framework?
 

I always get programmers asking me if they can they use a certain php framework when developing my web application.

My question, is it really necessary? Why cant they just use regular php and html? I dont understand it.

Please help.

Also, if they decide to use a particular framework can I EASILY move my app over to another host without messing everything up?

Thanks
Mike