On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Ajai Khattri<a...@bitblit.net> wrote: > 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.
Wise words - and based on Bev's design background I'm going to also mention Silverstripe, which is a CMS built upon the Sapphire framework. What makes Silverstripe unique from the usual suspects is that it goes into a page-centric design approach, meaning you write page templates for different types of content. Probably would feel completely natural to someone coming over from design and production. Ultimately you have different types of frameworks to choose from, with specific characteristics: * glue frameworks - like Zend and Joomla 1.5, glue frameworks allow you to glue together just the stuff you need to get things done. They are known to scale and perform very well, as you only incur performance hits for code you actually use. They also promote a Do It Yourself (DIY) attitude, as you ultimately decide what legos you choose to stack, and how to stack them. * stack frameworks - like CakePHP and Symfony, stack frameworks are the whole enchilada, providing developers with a rich suite of features to rapidly prototype. Stacks are usually fastest for prototyping and throwing code together, but are known to be more difficult than glue frameworks to customize to specific needs. Some say scale and performance are also issues, however your mileage may vary ;-) I like both styles of frameworks for different reasons, and there are emerging projects like Kohana (really cool!) and Silverstripe/Sapphire that have modern approaches. Both merit a serious gander, IMHO. As long as you pick one (or three) of these frameworks to play with, you will be forced in one way or another to make the leap into OO programming. The old Sitepoint books (PHP Anthology) and PHP5 Power Programming were good books for getting an understanding of solid OO practices. -- Mitch _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
