Posted by NC on 07/18/07 22:46

On Jul 16, 12:03 pm, Michael <xmxmich...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

You actually have the third option: implementing (and, if necessary,
extending) an off-the-shelf application (Drupal, phpBB, vBulletin,
WordPress, etc.)

> I want to get used for one of this 2 programming techniques
> and stick with it with no regrets in the future.

Not gonna happen. There is no silver bullet. No single approach can
fit every situation. If you need to develop fast, you should use
frameworks (in the extreme, if you need to develop VERY fast, you
should implement an off-the-shelf product as the first release and
extend it going forward). If you need to write high-performance code,
you should stay away from frameworks.

Cheers,
NC

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