Need advice about frameworks

[Jon Spriggs]

Hi All,

I've recently taken over the steering wheel of an open source PHP authentication system [1]. It's got inline HTML, no object orientation methodology, no unit testing and no database abstraction. Part of the reason I took it over was because the existing team don't want to do anything with it, and it's something I quite like the look of.

I'd like to bring it up to date, using classes, unit testing, some way of letting people deploy using various SQL back-ends, and I was thinking of using something like Zend, but I have absolutely no idea of what's what in that space.

So, here's the question; without writing my own framework (again!), what's the differences between the various existing frameworks, and what's worth looking at? As it's an open source (GPL) project, I'd like to not stray into mixing licenses too much!

[1] http://github.com/MOTP-AS
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Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs

[Chris Maiden]

Hi Jon,

On 1 Oct 2012, at 11:26, Jon Spriggs <j...@sprig.gs> wrote:

> So, here's the question; without writing my own framework (again!), what's the differences between the various existing frameworks, and what's worth looking at? As it's an open source (GPL) project, I'd like to not stray into mixing licenses too much!

I am sure I'll not be the only one to recommend you take a look at Symfony2 - http://symfony.com

Best regards,
Chris

[Mei Gwilym]

Hi Jon, 

Sounds like a great project. But I'm not sure if containing it within a particular framework is the best idea. 

If you write it according to PSR-0 standards (https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-0.md) then end users could use Composer to add it to their projects whatever their framework of choice. 

Best of luck with this. 

Mei Gwilym

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[Mike Hart]

Hi Jon,

I agree with Chris. I initially went with Zend but have, over the last 6 months, moved to Symfony 2 and will never look back. It's a full stack framework and has lots of RAD tools.

Mike.

On 1 October 2012 11:32, Chris Maiden <he...@webgoodness.co.uk> wrote:

[John Davies]

I would also recommend taking a look at Code Igniter too.

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John Davies

[Adam Westbrook]

I'll put an oar in for CodeIgniter - http://codeigniter.com/ - very simple, very well documented, lots of resources and a decent community. It probably doesn't have the feature list you might get with Zend, but at the same time it's much more portable. I'm currently using it for a number of registration and administration systems and it's holding up great.

Either way I'd say best advice is install a few and play with them, you'll find one that you get on well with.

Adam Westbrook
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On 1 October 2012 11:32, Chris Maiden <he...@webgoodness.co.uk> wrote:

[Keir Lavelle]

If you find Zend / Symfony2 overkill, I'd recommend Silex or Slim - both are very simple "micro-frameworks" which I find less inhibiting to my own style of coding (I should probably be alarmed by this :P) and another reason I like them is that I am a big fan of Idiorm - which is a lightweight orm that makes database interaction extremely simple, worth a look definitely.

[John Davies]

For the record and not what was asked, but avoid concrete5 at all costs. Nice from a user perspective but nightmare to code.

Sent from my Windows Phone

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