Not just into CakePHP & CodeIgniter. For search functionality in our Symfony projects we often drop in the Zend Lucene library.
--------------------------------------------------- Keri Henare [e] [email protected] [m] 021 874 552 [w] www.kerihenare.com On 28/07/2009, at 12:36 PM, Aaron Cooper wrote: > > Hi Gregor, > > I'm a ZF fanboy, but I still agree with the Symfony dorks here. ;-) > > I've worked with a number of ZF projects and the structure of the > MVC side > of things can differ greatly (ever had a look at Magento?). It's > true, ZF is > more of a Library with an MVC controller and only a reccommended > method of > file structuring as Mohammed pointed out. > > The main reason why I love ZF is actually because of this. ZF (or > portions > there-of) can be dropped into any code base and used. I've heard of > a few > Cake and CodeIgniter devs doing just that. Non-uniformity of ZF is far > outweighed by this ability with the sort of projects I work on and the > developers I work with. > > But if the choice is between these two, and structuring standards is > the > most important consideration, Symfony wins based on what I've seen > when > reviewing pretty much all the big boys. > > Aaron > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "gregor brabyn" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:15 AM > Subject: [phpug] PHP Frameworks & PHP Accelerators > > > > I know PHP Frameworks have been discussed alot here but I have a few > questions I am not easily finding trustworthy answers for elsewhere. > > Our agency is looking to adopt a PHP framework. We have a situation > where > projects are often passed around to different developers during their > lifecycle so one of the main considerations is that code gets > standardised > in its structure. Symfony & Zend are the 2 frameworks in the > shortlist. > > First question. I understand that Symfony really should be using a PHP > Accelerator in the production environment. Is it the same case with > Zend? > > We are looking to use the framework on projects that are not > necessarily > that large, just have some complex functionality where the framework > can > speed up development and make the code structure standardised. Are > both > these frameworks appropriate for this? There will of course be large > projects as well. > > I know RAM is cheap but is there a problem with using up lots of RAM > when > there may be a situation of lots of sites that aren't used that > often and a > PHP Accelerator is used? > > I have been reading that Zend is quite a loose framework and some > have been > referring to it as almost a library of code. Does this mean > developers will > be able structure their Zend Framework code in quite varied ways > making it > harder for other developers quickly pick up the code and work with it. > > I will be grateful for your answers. > > Greg > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
