On 13-10-21 01:24 PM, Bastien wrote:
On Oct 21, 2013, at 16:26, Curtis Maurand <curtis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've been doing some research on frameworks, etc. Everyone has one they like and even the development environments that you can get have their favorites and books seem to have their favorites. I've been looking at Cake, Symfony, Zend, PEAR-Flexy, Smarty, Joomla, etc., etc., etc. I'm not going to ask which framework everyone likes best because that's pointless.
All of the web hosting control panels/billing systems do not support the technologies that I'm currently using (dbmail, powerdns). To that end, I need to write my own. Should I be using a framework at all?
You may want to look at auraphp.com. It provides libraries instead of frameworks and may make your tasks easier
While I have my own framework I have found that most of my work in
recent years is working within other frameworks or integrating
frameworks to share resources in some way (such as binding Drupal,
MediaWiki, Moodle, etc. together). That said, I still use my own
framework but find that I leverage it more as a building/deployment tool
these days. For instance I often use it to build out these kinds of
multi app deployments using one master configuration that generates the
appropriate local configs and creates the site layout putting modules,
libraries, etc where they belong and applies ownerships and permissions.
I will often also use it when migrating data from legacy systems into
new formats or to work with one of these apps. I also use it for
generating one off scripts when the client requests a spreadsheet that
brings data together from multiple sources. In my experience writing
your own framework is a fantastic grounding in thinking through
generalization, while learning other frameworks is an eye opener on
different ways of tackling problems and how not one size fits all. I
highly recommend both scenarios :)
Cheers,
Rob.
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