On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, li...@nopersonal.info wrote: > 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.
[snip] > 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? I think many of us have come to that same fork in the road when making the move into frameworks. When I got into frameworks, I did read books on PHP OOP (the No Starch book is good). Since most frameworks use OOP and since they show no sign in going away, it is well worth reading up on OOP. Also, a book on design patterns probably would be useful too. As to what framework is good, that is a very subjective question. But with your newly acquired OOP knowledge you will be in a much better place to judge how they work and which ones you're comfortable with. Basically, the best thing to do would be to look at a tutorial/demo for each one, follow each one, work through and see which one makes the most sense for *you*. Other things to consider: how much documentation is there? are they easy to read? are there any books? what are the mailing lists like? how active is development of the framework? in short, how good is the community around the framework? Im not going to recommend any single one but Zend, CakePHP and symfony are pretty popular. When I made my choice, it was the excellent documentation and community that helped me decide. -- Aj. _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
