Posted by Paul Furman on 07/19/07 02:14

Tom wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:15:23 -0700, Michael wrote...
>
>>hey all,
>>I'm wondering what tools and techniques people use to do stuff with
>>PHP.
>>yes yes, I know it depends. but in general, let's say you have a BIG
>>project to complete, how would you do it?
>>there are programmers that all they use is direct PHP, there are some
>>people that use template engine [ie Smarty] and some database
>>abstraction [ie- ADODB ] , there are people that use some MVC
>>framework or something else.
>>
>>so, what are you guys using most of the time?
>
> I usually check if there was already an existing program I could use, instead of
> recreating the wheel. As an example, I had worked on a site that want to setup a
> message board. Rather than make one from scratch, which would have been a
> nightmare, I got a few recommendations for PHPBB and that was a very well
> developed and maintained program. If something like that didn't exist, then I
> would have had to start with nothing.

Often that gets you into something real complicated but like you say if
it's well ordered, you can jump in & make modifications. I certainly do
plenty of copying & pasting myself, mostly I develop a system for
various things from scratch or gathered snippets then paste that
together into different solutions.

--
Paul Furman Photography
http://www.edgehill.net/1
Bay Natives Nursery
http://www.baynatives.com

[Back to original message]