NYCPHP Meetup

[Yitzchak Schaffer]

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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Yitzchak Schaffer
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Touro College Libraries
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