Hello ladies & gentlemen, I've just purchased my first book on PHP Object-Oriented Programming and have also been looking at all the frameworks that abound. I'm unsure of where to go from here.
To date (and by necessity) most of my projects have been pretty simple and done in a shared hosting environment--e.g. last year I did my first Drupal site, I recently rebuilt a custom content management system that I inherited from someone else & debugged/completed a couple of years ago, and I've written a maintenance contract expiration tracker for one of our clients (which works but still needs to be polished)... Actually, that's pretty much it aside from playing with stuff in my personal sandbox. Due to my lack of programming experience, I've been doing things in a less than elegant way and I suspect this is causing me a lot of extra work, not to mention frustration. I'm loathe to move beyond my current comfort zone, but I know I MUST if I'm going to make any progress. Please bear in mind that my primary role is that of graphic/web designer, therefore I'm unable to devote as much time to my PHP/MySQL skills as I'd like. Soooo anyway, I'm looking at the possibility of using a framework that will work in a shared hosting environment and might help me develop things faster by not having to re-invent the wheel every time. Would CodeIgniter fit the bill? I have no idea how to judge which framework might be best for me, and don't want to waste time learning one that I'm going to outgrow 12 months from now. Should I even be thinking about frameworks at this point, or would I be better off reading through & understanding the OOP book first? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Bev _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
