So I have gotten to the point where my apps are getting bigger and bigger and I think I should look for some practical framework. Any suggestions? So far, I have read few articles, and most of people seem to like Zend and Symfony. Which one to choose?
Hi there, If your serious about making medium to large scale projects in PHP then yes get on the framework bandwagon. You will first have to scale the massive learning curve but once you do, you will fly through future projects Zend is good if you use Zend Studio to write your code as it's go all the setup you need built in.. you can setup new zend framework projects with wizards and then once developing, your functions are all store in zend studio just like the PHP ones are. This is a nice feature for your reference. All that aside, I personally find the Zend framework a bit too much and a bit ugly to work with outside of the Zend studio. Symfony never used this myself but heard good things. Also hear its overkill for your first framework. cakePHP make.. check out http://www.cakephp.org.. I been using this for a couple of years now and never looked back. It's very quick, packed full of helpers yet not too bloated. On the cakephp website is a tutorial they published to make a blog.. it only takes 20 minutes if you never done it before... check it out and you will see how easy the cakephp can do what you need. http://book.cakephp.org/view/219/Blog all the best,
Thanks for reply I have just installed Symfony on in WAMP on my localhost, and it seems very neat. I'm just trying the "Hello World" tutorial I will take a look at cakePHP later. It seems like a good alternative. But so far I like Symfony.
not willing to hijack this thread but just to put in a lil question.. is there anything called as rapid prototyping in php..? If yes.. zend studio.. cakephp.. are these the tools for rapid prototyping or its different all together?