Posted by David.Dyess on 04/21/07 12:42

On Apr 17, 7:41 am, "Paul" <l...@invalid.com> wrote:
> I have been coding apps with PHP for several years. But I am getting more
> involved in larger and more complicated PHP applications and want to use
> best practices.
>
> I use Eclipse's PHP IDE. I doubt I am using it to its full extent but I want
> to learn more about, and compare and contrast, frameworks versus IDE versus
> templating systems and MOST IMPORTANTLY learn what is going to save me time.
>
> I know technically the IDE is the tool in which you code but there are
> frameworks associated with IDE - for example the PHP IDE for Eclipse.
>
> Can you use a any framework within any templating system?
>
> I want to learn now what is going to save time later. Please help
> straighten me out amd let me know what libraries, frameworks and/or
> templating systems you think saves you time.
>
> Many thanks!

>From my experiences, a lot of frameworks have a templating system
built-in or support specific templating systems, such as smarty. I
prefer frameworks like Xaraya (http://xaraya.com). Xaraya has it's own
templating built-in, but they are html-based files with a few name
space variables to load in the data. Xaraya is mainly used as a CMS,
but it is intended to be a framework. It has saved me weeks of work.

One thing to note, most frameworks, especially the ones that will do
most of the work for you if you let them, have a rather steep learning
curve.

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