Michael A. Peters wrote: > Michael A. Peters wrote: >> Daevid Vincent wrote: >>> >>> I'm not looking to start a holy war here or re-hash the tired debate. >>> I just want some hard cold numbers to look at. >>> >>> "Do you use a public framework or roll your own?" >>> http://www.rapidpoll.net/8opnt1e >>> >>> >>> And for those interested, here are the results of the last poll: >>> >>> "To add the final ?> in PHP or not..." >>> http://www.rapidpoll.net/show.aspx?id=arc1opy >>> >>> I'm relieved to know I'm in the majority (almost 2:1) who close their >>> opening PHP tags. :) >>> >>> >> >> I roll my own, partially from classes I wrote and partially from >> classes at phpclasses.org and partially from neat stuff I find on the >> web. >> >> Not sure you could call it framework though, just a loose collection >> of independent classes. >> > > Just spent a couple days bringing that loose collection together along > with CSS templates from http://www.freecsstemplates.org/ and now > actually have my own (not quite finished) CMS. > > And it looks / works a hell of a lot better than anything I've done > before (er, other than it not quite being finished ...) > > Making my classes work together specifically to make a generic CMS > exposed a lot of bugs and poor design decisions in them that are now > largely fixes (er, well, we'll see ...) > > Last few days have been like an epiphany for me. great to hear; I've done this with pretty much every project for the last 5 years and in most cases I can apple it [1] - also find it beneficial to see coding styles over the years and refactor previous work - strangest thing is that as time goes on, the number of classes & lines of code I need for each application seems to drop! [1] "got a class for that" -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php