Comments on: Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Use a PHP Framework

By: Phil Sturgeon

Phil Sturgeon — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:14:31 +0000

Using a framework for projects – especially when doing freelance work – is pretty much standard these days and 90% of jobs you go for will expect an understanding of at least one major framework whether you’ll be using it day-in-day-out or not.

Frameworks like Rails and CakePHP are often considered faster but their automagic often gets in the way. Boil down a framework to its architecture and its collection of classes and you have a framework like CodeIgniter or Fuel, which are both designed to help you write write less code faster, without forcing you down the line of conventions and headaches.

Pick a framework that makes sense to you, that can be extended and overridden and that has a good collection of plugins. Thinks like the GetSparks,org project for CodeIgniter makes it a powerful player in the framework industry as it means addons can be included with a single command. Expect to see that rolled into CodeIgniter soon.

By: Brett Widmann

Brett Widmann — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:38:49 +0000

This is a good set of tools and tips you have here. I liek PHP because it does have great organization and its generally pretty easy to use.

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Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:43:13 +0000

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By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:33:06 +0000

I don’t know if you have ever used vi but having small files in directories is not a challenge.

By: murat

murat — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:53:57 +0000

I used and completed few projects with CakePHP and Zend Framework. They are pretty good in development phase, but problem is if you need performance, php itself is enough for it so frameworks will reduce performance. Now im not using a single class because performance rules. But probably i will return to precious ZF

By: evan

evan — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:19:54 +0000

1. Although file and folder structures keep code and other stuff organized, I don’t see why a framework should impose its own structure on me. Organization and obtrusiveness are common among existing frameworks.

2. When a framework allows PHP code in views and templates, there’s no guarantee MVC will be enforced. “Clean” and “maintainable”?

3. Less code and faster development? Duh. Maybe if you get past the steep learning curve first.

By: spiky

spiky — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:48:23 +0000

hello….what php editor use?

By: David

David — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:31:29 +0000

“If you have been coding plain old PHP for years, and getting really bored with it, getting started with a Framework can give you that crucial morale boost you have been lacking.”

That’s exactly where I was at. Although I’ve been happy with my growth over the years (building a pseudo framework for the intranet system at work), when looking into CI I’ve been having a ball doing the CI From Scratch series. Just not having to do so much stuff by hand and being able to deploy a full-blown environment to build off of in minutes is really exciting.

Great article

By: merry

merry — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:48:45 +0000

I know ,but i chose java

By: aditia

aditia — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:25:45 +0000

my own reason is you don’t have to repeat what you have done, except you have your own framework, but i don’t.

ya ya i start with cakephp and then codeigniter and now trying to explore kohanaphp

By: Fernando

Fernando — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:57:56 +0000

… and Hacker attack !!!

By: Zoran

Zoran — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:02:03 +0000

I started with CakePHP, did one simple project, but then i ran into problems understanding the framework itself, so i switched to CodeIgniter and learned lots of PHP along the way. I really like the structure of CI and how it handles the MVC pattern. Lately i started another project and implemented Doctrine (thanks to you) and whole Zend Framework into the CI’s library folder. I found out that Zend is way more professional coding than other frameworks, but CI is one of the most flexible allowing you so much freedom as developer, so you can still have the CI’s base and include the Zend standalone package. This way you let the Zend deal with the backend and CI with the presentation.
As an experienced PHP developer i strongly recommend using CI as your first framework then you will understand other frameworks quite easier.

By: Marcel Marnix

Marcel Marnix — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:46:24 +0000

The Fun factor works for me!

I am still in a learning curve, but after I’ve tried Zen, Smarty, Symfony etc. I realy like CI and netbeans, I am having so much FUN with my new toys

By: noname

noname — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:53:29 +0000

I have written my very simple website framework, after i have written a C# app for it to generate php code

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:54:36 +0000

Thanks for the arguments now i know why i chose Yii

By: Stelian Andrei

Stelian Andrei — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:07:07 +0000

I see there are a lot of CI fans around here. Including myself. I love the way that I can set it up very easily for small project. I haven’t had any large project as of yet, but I assume Symphony would be more suitable for those, from what I read anyway.

@3m masr: I don’t know about doctrine but I think CI had a special user contributed library for smarty. You could probably find it in the wiki. And using jQuery is as easy as with any other HTML page. Just include the script and code away

By: mary

mary — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:23:59 +0000

Thanks for this post, very true that using a framework will make you more efficient and organized.

I’m deciding between frameworks and very inclined towards Zend or Kohana, but I really like your CI posts too.

thanks for sharing.
mary

By: bl4z

bl4z — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:48:00 +0000

number one should be productivity boost // but it’s kinda sum of all reasons

By: 3m masr

3m masr — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:26:43 +0000

i really love CodeIgniter but i wanna some resources about linking it with Jquery , doctrine and Smarty .

i found a post here about CI and Doctrine that i hope you complete very sooooon .

thanks again !

By: Ron Oerlemans

Ron Oerlemans — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:17:22 +0000

Great arguments to use a PHP Framework. I recomment CodeIgniter for the beginner and Zend Framework for the advanced programmers. But I’m still a mid-advanced programmer.