ChaosKnight Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 Okay, so I am very used to PHP, have been using it for about 6 years... In those 6 years I also have about a years experience in Ruby on Rails and I loved the way that it worked, so neat and secure, all the code has it's place and the best of all - fully object oriented ! that was great but then the mishap with Twitter happened and I got scared to use Rails, so I got back on the PHP wagon , but I still have the desire to use a framework (it's just so much better!)... I started looking at the different frameworks in PHP and saw that there is an awful lot! I don't know which one to choose, I thought about CakePHP, but then I heard the Zend is much more stable and easier to use, I also heard a lot of good things about CodeIgniter and Symfony... Can anyone please assist and tell me their experiences with some of the different frameworks? I'm on a shared host that uses IIS, and still has only PHP 4.3.2 and MySQL 3.52, but they offer good services so I decided to stay with them until I find very good reason to go elsewhere... I mainly work on a tourism site that has a lot, and I mean a lot of content, so I need something very stable and trustworthy... Any advice? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/204584-choosing-the-right-framework-for-me-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 If you are on 4.3.2 I would go with Cake or CI as ZF I believe only works with php 5.2+. If you can wing it though, ZF is my preferred framework. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/204584-choosing-the-right-framework-for-me-help/#findComment-1071190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaosKnight Posted June 12, 2010 Author Share Posted June 12, 2010 Thanks for your reply mate, I'll keep this thread running a bit to see what others have to say... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/204584-choosing-the-right-framework-for-me-help/#findComment-1071192 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 ZF requires minimum 5.2.4. And like premiso said use either CodeIgniter or CakePHP, if you however have a good working knowledge on OO patterns and principles I would advice to use ZF and switch hosts (or upgrade). Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/204584-choosing-the-right-framework-for-me-help/#findComment-1071201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaosKnight Posted June 12, 2010 Author Share Posted June 12, 2010 Thanks ignace, I'll keep that in mind... But if you could choose only between CakePHP and CodeIgniter, which onw would you prefer? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/204584-choosing-the-right-framework-for-me-help/#findComment-1071253 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 CodeIgniter Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/204584-choosing-the-right-framework-for-me-help/#findComment-1071263 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaosKnight Posted June 12, 2010 Author Share Posted June 12, 2010 I'll have to try out both CakePHP and CodeIgniter then and see which I prefer... CodeIgniter attracts my attention seeing that it executes much faster than Cake, but then again I love the rigidness that CakePHP offers... Also, CakePHP reminds me about my Rails days (loved 'em)... But thanks for your help, will first try out CodeIgniter... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/204584-choosing-the-right-framework-for-me-help/#findComment-1071264 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 I'll have to try out both CakePHP and CodeIgniter then and see which I prefer... CodeIgniter attracts my attention seeing that it executes much faster than Cake, but then again I love the rigidness that CakePHP offers... Also, CakePHP reminds me about my Rails days (loved 'em)... But thanks for your help, will first try out CodeIgniter... The reason I encouraged CodeIgniter is that it provides prefab classes like Cart Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/204584-choosing-the-right-framework-for-me-help/#findComment-1071373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaosKnight Posted June 13, 2010 Author Share Posted June 13, 2010 So it's like a framework with it's own library of pre-written goodness? Would you say that the classes that are pre-written is good enough for immediate use, or does it requre a lot of hacks before it's "safe" enough to use? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/204584-choosing-the-right-framework-for-me-help/#findComment-1071377 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Yeah. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/204584-choosing-the-right-framework-for-me-help/#findComment-1071382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoobzen Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Hello, You did not mention Smarty, but just in case you do consider itr .. don't. I am locked into a situation where it has to be used and I can tell you that it is "garbage" IMHO .. Frank Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/204584-choosing-the-right-framework-for-me-help/#findComment-1076990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Hello, You did not mention Smarty, but just in case you do consider itr .. don't. I am locked into a situation where it has to be used and I can tell you that it is "garbage" IMHO .. Frank Smarty is not "garbage", you just need to understand it's non-OO plugin-system. That said though I dont use Smarty anymore. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/204584-choosing-the-right-framework-for-me-help/#findComment-1077089 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaosKnight Posted June 30, 2010 Author Share Posted June 30, 2010 Yeah, Smarty isn't needed, CodeIgniter has built-in template support, but I haven't needed it yet... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/204584-choosing-the-right-framework-for-me-help/#findComment-1079324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhal Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 Qcubed is one very good and handy php framework: it uses event-driven approach and you don`t have to write Ajax. Check out the examples: http://examples.qcu.be/ 5. Basic AJAX in QForms - A look at how to AJAX-enable your QForms 7. Paginated Controls - * * Enabling AJAX on the QDataGrid Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/204584-choosing-the-right-framework-for-me-help/#findComment-1092871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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