Mitch Pirtle wrote:
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.
I've developed one major project (in progress) and one smaller one in symfony, both "standard" MySQL-based apps, the major one having (I think) a complex data model & business logic. It's been great for us, and good documentation, too.
I recently worked on a project to build a new frontend on an ancient open-source digital collection management system. Because this project has its own peculiar data-storage mechanisms (not your normal database-backed system), I looked for something more open-ended, and ended up going with CodeIgniter.
I found the PHP4 mix of quasi-OOP and magical function calls out of thin air [e.g. get_instance() ] to be a bit bizarre. It was only in the course of working on this project, and identifying certain issues in developing it, that I was prepared to read Zandstra's PHP Objects and really start to "get" the OOP patterns philosophy.
I then heard about Kohana, which is a (more?) strictly OOP, PHP5 port of CodeIgniter. This answered my problems with CI's quirks; now, armed with my enhanced OOP understanding and Kohana, I have in the plans to rewrite my app in Kohana, when my shop's schedule allows.
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