Well, Symfony (version 1.0) has many plugins for things like blog, cms, wiki, forum, user management. But learning Symfony takes time.
Another simple framework that I've looked at, not tried yet, is Kohana ... seems very simple, very easy to install and get running ... To me it is like Symfony lite ... On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Matthew Whiting <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to those who've responded with suggestions. Its actually a bit more > work than I thought trying to suss what framework to go with.. Don't want to > put too much effort into learning something, to then decide its not so cool > after all. Not that the project I'm starting on is a big project though, so > can see how it goes and take things from there with future projects. > I'm tempted to go with a framework that doesn't have too big a learning > curve but still has what I need.. But, then it might be a good exercise to > take the time to develop a site using a popular and robust framework that is > well documented.. such as Cake or Symfony.. Enough though they are probably > overkill given the size of the site I'm creating. I've just been browsing > the archive from this mailing list.. > Argh, decisions! > I'm looking for the ability to easily create small sites that can > incorporate a blog or gallery but without having the whole site created on a > CMS such as Drupal, which is what I've been using recently, have become > frustrated by and want a break from. Be good to have aspects such as user > authentication taken care of effortlessly though. > But, I also have some larger projects upcoming that'll need to handle more > data management and potentially online auction capability. > Hmmm... > > On 11/05/2009, at 8:30 PM, Simon Holywell wrote: > > Also take a look at Agavi, which is forked from the original Mojavi. > http://www.agavi.org It's handling of forms is very nice. > > For those who're interested, Agavi/Mojavi is also where Symfony had its > roots. > > > Kind regards, > James McGlinn > __________________________________ > CTO > Eventfinder Limited > Suite 106, Heards Building > 2 Ruskin Street, Parnell, Auckland 1052 > Phone: +649 365 2342 > Mobile: +6421 633 234 > > [email protected] | www.eventfinder.co.nz > > > > > > > -- Blue Horn Ltd - System Development http://bluehorn.co.nz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
