Comments on: PHP Frameworks

By: Chui

Chui — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:21:45 +0000

I spent a day working with CodeIgniter.

The framework is pretty mature, and easy to navigate.

The include loader is a bit strange, but once you get used to it, it’s fine.

Then there is the case of $obj =& get_instance(). You will need it, when models load models.

There are some quirkiness with database queries, for instance
$this->db->query() is seems to behave like a result set…, except it also has methods like first_row, and results. A bit counterintuitive there, but luckily there are lots of examples, if you judiciously use the search feature on the documentation pages.

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AlbanyWiFi.com » Blog Archive » PHP Frameworks — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:08:03 +0000

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By: mattrmiller

mattrmiller — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:38:26 +0000

That looks really nice, the only thing is it’s PHP 5 which a lot of hosts still do not support for some reason. I am still trying to get in on my server, but it doesn’t play nice with other software like Plesk. Until Plesk supports it, I can’t use it

By: Tal Ater

Tal Ater — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:35:19 +0000

I’ve used both CakePHP and Symfony (http://www.symfony-project.com/) in production.

I’ve found that Cake simply tries to emulate Rails 1:1, and doesn’t really does it’s own thing… And ofcourse it doesn’t do Rails as well as Rails does.

Symfony on the other hand, took a much larger time investement to get started, but I’ve found the rewards in using it to be worth the while.

I am now working with Symfony, and plan to use it for my next projects as well.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:50:36 +0000

My company just finished a review of the top frameworks, including codeigniter and cakephp. codeigniter was by far the easiest to use, but also the most feature incomplete, so maybe it will be ready in 6-12 months. cakephp was barely acceptable (I didn’t review this one) and paled in ease of use with codeigniter. In the end we decided to stick with our own homegrown, rough around the edges framework.

By: mattrmiller

mattrmiller — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:04 +0000

I have seen this before, and have in my bookmarks of things to checkout. I will have to make this a priority, that video about crating a blog in 20 minutes is pretty cool.

Thanks!

By: Maciek KuÅ›

Maciek KuÅ› — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:29:42 +0000

You should take a look at CodeIgniter – quite interesting alternative to CakePHP – http://codeigniter.com