Posted by Rik on 07/16/07 19:30

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:03:37 +0200, Michael <xmxmichael@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm new to PHP, I already learned the basics of the language and built
> some little app's for practice.
> I have a critical dilemma, soon enough, I probably start to develop
> real-world applications, fully working web-sites for paying
> costumers.
> I have 2 options for doing this: writing everything with plain PHP, or
> using some PHP framework.
> I don't want to choose something and the realize that the other is
> batter.
> I want to get used for one of this 2 programming techniques and stick
> with it with no regrets in the future.
>
> please try to help me here, I'm searching the web for 3 days but can't
> find a decent answer, many programmers started with plain PHP then
> wanted to try some framework but realized that changing all the apps
> they have been building would be a pain -so they stick with the
> plain php and maybe some template engine [ie- Smarty]. thats not my
> situation because I'm new to the language, I really want to do the
> best move at the beginning.


There's no single answer, all depends on what it is exactly that you're
making. If you're a starter, changes are your projects aren't going to be
that big and complicated in the beginning. In those cases, using a
framework is usually overkill, and the project is better served with
'plain' PHP coding. Bigger projects later on might well benefit from a
framework, certainly if there's more then one coder involved, but which is
entirely dependant on the project itself.


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Rik Wasmus

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