Jake, Thank you very much for your insight. To be fair the team that is bidding for my business did disclose their preference and mentioned some benefits of the Symfony platform over cakePHP. But, as you mention, the challenge is that I would have to pay for the migration and testing (and debugging) whereas sticking with cakePHP and enhancing the system might be the more capital efficient choice.
The new team also is recommending some architectural changes as well (such as adding a service layer) which seem to make sense. Again, I wonder if the same result can be had by sticking with the existing cakePHP framework and building in the new architectural elements without rebuilding the entire site? Warmest, Mike On Jan 1, 2:02 am, Jake Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 30 2009, 11:42 pm, Mike Langford <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am considering changing development teams (outsourced) and the > > proposal from the new team recommends moving to Symfony from my > > current cakePHP framework. I am not a developer myself so I am looking > > to get an idea of how much work this is and what the true value of > > such a migration would be? > > > Is there a simple way to migrate to Symfony or will my new team > > essentially have to re-code the entire site? > > Do not do this! This is a very bad idea! All of the major PHP > frameworks are roughly equivalent. CakePHP is roughly as good as > Symfony. You gain absolutely nothing by changing your site from Cake > to Symfony. Your new team simply wants to convert the site so that > they can use the framework they are comfortable with. I suggest that > you look for another team, once with experience with Cake. > > Your new team would need to re-write the entire application/website. > You'll gain nothing. You'll face a new period of having to debug the > code. This can only be a wise move if the new team is offering > something of great value in return, or if they offer to do it for > free, perhaps to cement a long term relationship with you. > > Developers will tend to recommend the technologies they are most > comfortable with. I've done it. Everyone does it. But if you already > have a working site or application, then you gain no benefit from > this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en.
