Posted by darius on 04/10/07 16:02

Hi

I'm writing a web portal for an EMR (electronic medical record) system.
The main functionalities include displaying/editing patient info,
viewing/editing patient charts, viewing/making appointment,
viewing/editing billing info.

I'm thinking of using some framework to bootstrap development. I need
something that'll display/browse SQL results and I need extensive and
flexible form handling. So far, I found CodeIgniter. Its form handling
is good, but it's a bit cumbersome as you have to do a lot of setting
variables, like $field['Username']=... $field['Password']=.... It does
support pagination, but not much beside that for browsing SQL results.

I also looked at smarty. But it seems more concentrated on separating
business and presentation logic, which is good but not my foremost
concern. Also, it requires learning another syntax that I'm not sure is
that much easier than php itself for would-be web designers. But maybe
it's worth it if there's an extensive plugin library that does what I
need.

What other frameworks do you recommend that I look at? thanks.

PS: My boss will not open source the app, and he doesn't want to pay for
the framework either. And of course he wants it done yesterday.

PPS: I'm lousy at page designing, so a pointer to good source of simple
(CSS, standard compliant, no whiz bang Flash stuff) but attractive
templates is appreciated.

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