Hi Mathew, Since your first post I've had a few free days and had to decide the future of a project I'm working with. I decided to dedicate one day to yii and another day to kohana. They are both pretty similar and really easy to get going, provided you find the right documentation. For yii it's easy cause the site is well organized, but for kohana I had to dig through several pages untill I found a PDF called something like Kohana 101 (I've lost the link now...). In the end I found myself wishing that one had the features of the other and viceversa, although they are very similar between them. My veredict? Well, my project was already based on my own set of libraries that I've built during my career. A mix of open source and my own code. I've decided to continue with that, cause it has exactly the features I was looking for in the other frameworks. Still it was a very good excercise to see what people are doing and how and also to find out that many times a huge open source community thinks exactly like you and many times you can't figure out why such a big community couldn't think of a particular way of doing things that you're so proud of.
Hope that helps you make your decission! Matias Gertel Freelance Web Development & Coding e: [email protected] m: +64 21 288 8840 p: +64 9 838 3367 On 14/05/2009, at 6:37 PM, Matthew Whiting 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 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
