Posted by Rob Tweed on 10/15/06 17:41

You should add eXtc Web Developer (http://www.mgateway.com) to your
list of frameworks to check out - it's actually not specific to PHP as
it will cross-generate ASP.Net and JSP also.


On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:22:06 +0100, kevin bailey
<kbailey@freewayprojects.com> wrote:

>Robert wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to php - are there any listings of web server frameworks out
>> there? I'd like to know which ones have the most use and have proven
>> themselves at least somewhat.
>>
>> I'm looking for something in php that'd give the business logic
>> modelling and templating that you'd get, say, from Java servlets +
>> Freemarker.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Robb
>
>After having just researched this myself over a couple of days I thought I'd
>drop in my 2p worth.
>
>Most frameworks (or templating systems) are a trade off between already
>built functionality and flexibility - and are somewhere along the scale of
>
>Mambo (which is great)-> horde -> cake-> tiny but strong -> P4A -> RAW php
>and HTML.
>
>
>There are loads more and I may have not got the order quite correct.
>
>Eventually I settled on using Smarty and also to use the PEAR libraries.
>
>This allows complete control over what is being written plus Smarty
>templating works really well.
>
>For example I have a single HTML template for the web application. On each
>page I use PHP to generate HTML to display a form or results. All I do is
>set the output HTML to a single variable called $content and then display
>the template. The main div contains the line {$content} so my content is
>displayed in the main div.
>
>To change something on every page I just change something on the template.
>
>And the PEAR libraries are really useful for prevention of the reinventing
>of the wheel. For example the Auth library means you can easily carry out
>authentication for your web application. Also, the mail_queue library
>means that it's easy to put emails you want to send into a DB and have
>separate cron run code to actually send them.
>
>This is great for the testing phase.
>
>It takes a few days to get Smarty and PEAR set up and understood but I feel
>the effort is well worth it.
>
>Kevin

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Rob Tweed
M/Gateway Developments Ltd

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