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[Matthew Kaufman]

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Darryle Steplight <dsteplight at gmail.com>wrote:

> "The framework choice is always less important than having a
> well-designed database underlying your code."  <-  #sotrue
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Kristina Anderson
> <ka at kacomputerconsulting.com> wrote:
> > A lean & mean AJAX-specific framework is SlimPHP.  I've used it and can
> say
> > that I was happy with it.
> >
> > The "big 5" are clearly:  CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Drupal, Zend & Symfony.
> >  Maybe some agencies in NYC are using Yii but in all my years I've never
> run
> > into one.
> >
> > I think that it's a good idea to get experience using as many different
> > frameworks as you can so you become comfortable with MVC architectures in
> > general, and know what the plusses/minuses are in different situations.
>  In
> > many cases the people doing the hiring are narrow thinkers who only want
> to
> > hire someone with experience in "that specific framework" when the truth
> is,
> > after a few years, they all start to seem pretty similar.
> >
> > It's best to stick whenever possible with the less bloated options, like
> > Kohana, where performance issues are the primary consideration; although
> > yes, there is little or no documentation available for Kohana.  In fact I
> > will be using Kohana for an upcoming project due to its leanness.
> >
> > I've dealt extensively with reengineering really horribly designed
> CakePHP
> > codebases and it's amazing what I've seen.  It was clearly advertised as
> a
> > quick, easy way to hire really green programmers to build "complex"
> > websites.  It's not.
> >
> > The framework choice is always less important than having a well-designed
> > database underlying your code.
> >
> > Happy coding,
> >
> > Kristina
> >
> >
> >
> > On 9/14/2011 11:57 AM, federico ulfo wrote:
> >>
> >> What's the best framework is one of the hot discussion on linked in.
> >> Ruby has Rails, PHP has many, Symfony2 it's a good one, mostly used in
> >> Europe, the community is nice, but the founder Fabien Potencier is not
> >> very friendly, before come to NYC, at the Italian PHP Day I asked him
> >> if they was hiring, he's answer was "we hire only people who speak
> >> French" ...
> >>
> >> Kohana is based on Code Igniter, a good choice but the community is
> >> way smaller than Code Igniter, here in NYC many agencies goes for Yii,
> >> Zend is one of the best solution, hope the PHP 5 version will improve
> >> the performances, which were the biggest issue of it.
> >>
> >> Keep in consideration also to use a CMF like Drupal, one of the best
> >> solution, many NYC agencies chose it, so is also a good skill to add
> >> in your resume, if you're searching for job.
> >>
> >> As last, I'd like to mention the RainFramework, it's easy, lightweight
> >> and fast, so if you searching for great performances it's worth a try
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On Sep 14, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Rob Marscher<rmarscher at beaffinitive.com>
> >>  wrote:
> >>
> >>>> On Sep 14, 2011, at 5:42 AM, Bruce Martin wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This may be controversial but I would like to know what the conceived
> >>>>> top 5 PHP frameworks are. You don't have to list why, just an order
> from
> >>>>> most popular, i.e. there is more demand for developers with
> experience using
> >>>>> the framework. The reason I ask, is I have just spent a year working
> with
> >>>>> CakePhp, which has it's benefits, but I have also seem some flaws
> with it.
> >>>>> So when I'm ready to move on, I would like to go in the direction of
> flow in
> >>>>> the industry.
> >>>>
> >>>>  From what I've seen around the community, the most popular seem to be
> >>>
> >>> Zend
> >>> Symfony
> >>> Cake
> >>> CodeIgniter
> >>>
> >>> I've also seen a number of people using Yii/Prado as well as Vork.
> >>>
> >>> Personally, I'm using Lithium.
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