Posted by Chung Leong on 07/17/07 16:56

On Jul 16, 9:03 pm, Michael <xmxmich...@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.
>
> Have a good day ;-)

Using a framework for PHP development is like imposing a democratic
framework on Iraq: it's a slam dunk every time.

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