I've used a little bit of Cake in the past but now am using CodeCharge for production development in my company. It's a bit tight and restrictive, but extremely, extremely fast and well-suited for complicated reports and grids (ie, CRM, lists, etc) and other back-end functionality.
With that said, I'm looking at new frameworks for my own personal development work, but other than Cake, I have no clue about any of the new ones out there. Can anyone provide a good rundown of the popular frameworks out there - ie, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Kohana, and the other ones Brent mentioned above - based on their experiences? Like pros, cons, etc. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Brent Baisley <brentt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not too long ago I decided to sit down and quickly sample all the popular > frameworks again (Symfony, Slim, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Yii). I didn't want > to spend more than an hour getting each up and running and playing with it. > Laravel was on that list and I was eager to try it since it was designed > really with only PHP >=5.3 in mind. > > I never really got very far with it since it requires mcrypt to work even > in it's most basic form. I did not have mcrypt installed, so that added > time. It required DocumentRoot to be set and a writeable directory > (storage/views) to work. A bit of extra work just to get a page up and ate > into my self imposed 1 hour limit. > It largely (completely?) uses static class references, which I am not a > big fan of. It is convenient since the static references are easily > accessible from anywhere. But it means you can't overload it and use your > own classes without some difficulty. Like a lot of frameworks, you need to > commit to it and the way it does things. > > That said, Laravel is certainly a framework I would have on the short list > of options. Symfony is also much better in v2 and they are taking a module > approach. For example, Twig is now standalone. > > On Jan 14, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: > > > On 01/14/2013 05:52 AM, Peter Sawczynec wrote: > >> Can anyone offer me any thoughts, what you've heard, background info or > >> real world experience with Laravel? > >> > > > > ExpandTheRoom (an agency in Manhattan) uses Laravel, from what I've > heard. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List > > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > > > http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/show-participation >
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