Hello friends,

Although i am still in the process of learning php still just want to know before i dive deep in i wud like to know from the programming gurus(php) which frameworks u prefer and why

 

1 Yii

 

2 CodeIgniter

 

3 Zend

 

4 CakePHP (

 

5 Symfony

 

6 PHPDevShell

 

7 Prado

 

8 Akelos

 

9 ZooP

 

10 QPHP

Edited January 19, 201115 yr by sash_oo7

I'm a Cake/Zend developer if anything when it comes to those, mostly due to the fact that they're both pretty simple to get to grips with and there's a healthy source of learning material available for them. The MVC I use most frequently however is opencart, however it's not designed for your average site, only e-com

I havent really used any others apart from Code Igniter, that's probably because Code Igniter is so damn good!

I use Zend, I find its best suited to my needs. Doesn't feel like a straight jacket like some frameworks, sometimes on a small site I'll use my own micro MVC setup and use Zend as a library. I also think its the most mature and has the backing of Zend themselves and the community is very large, if you have a question theres plenty of people on IRC/Nabble/stackoverflow to help. It also integrates very will with Doctrine, which I use as an ORM for most of my projects. Also their licensing model suits my needs and its nice to have unit tests available.

I use Zend, I find its best suited to my needs. Doesn't feel like a straight jacket like some frameworks, sometimes on a small site I'll use my own micro MVC setup and use Zend as a library. I also think its the most mature and has the backing of Zend themselves and the community is very large, if you have a question theres plenty of people on IRC/Nabble/stackoverflow to help. It also integrates very will with Doctrine, which I use as an ORM for most of my projects. Also their licensing model suits my needs and its nice to have unit tests available.

 

Whwn you say licencing model, what do you mean?

 

For example: If i wanted to use zend to create a social network with features that contain payment - would this be oki?

 

Also, would anyone recommend using Zend over CodeIgniter or Vice Versa??

 

Thanks.

Whwn you say licencing model, what do you mean?

 

For example: If i wanted to use zend to create a social network with features that contain payment - would this be oki?

 

Also, would anyone recommend using Zend over CodeIgniter or Vice Versa??

 

Thanks.

 

Well ZF is licensed under the new BSD License, so I'm free to redistribute it in source or binary format with or without modification, so I can pretty much do what I like with it providing I keep the copyright notice in place.

 

So yeah it would be perfectly acceptable to create a social network using ZF providing your keep the copyright info in the source code.

 

Of course I would recommend Zend Framework over Code Igniter any day of the week because I'm slightly biased being a ZF user Well no not really I don't really care what framework people use, I chose Zend for reasons specific to me, I'd expect people to choose a framework based on their own requirements.

I use Zend, have done for years now!

I don't use any frameworks. The beauty of PHP is that you don't need them.

If an application I am building needs additional classes then I use exactly what I need.

 

Does this make sense?

I don't use any frameworks. The beauty of PHP is that you don't need them.

If an application I am building needs additional classes then I use exactly what I need.

 

Does this make sense?

 

I use Zend for exactly the same reason - you can use anything from the full MVC framework down to a single library.