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[Lester Leong]

I've used a little bit of Cake in the past but now am using CodeCharge for
production development in my company. It's a bit tight and restrictive, but
extremely, extremely fast and well-suited for complicated reports and grids
(ie, CRM, lists, etc) and other back-end functionality.

With that said, I'm looking at new frameworks for my own personal
development work, but other than Cake, I have no clue about any of the new
ones out there. Can anyone provide a good rundown of the popular frameworks
out there - ie, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Kohana, and the other ones Brent
mentioned above - based on their experiences? Like pros, cons, etc.

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Brent Baisley <brenttech at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not too long ago I decided to sit down and quickly sample all the popular
> frameworks again (Symfony, Slim, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Yii). I didn't want
> to spend more than an hour getting each up and running and playing with it.
> Laravel was on that list and I was eager to try it since it was designed
> really with only PHP >=5.3 in mind.
>
> I never really got very far with it since it requires mcrypt to work even
> in it's most basic form. I did not have mcrypt installed, so that added
> time. It required DocumentRoot to be set and a writeable directory
> (storage/views) to work. A bit of extra work just to get a page up and ate
> into my self imposed 1 hour limit.
> It largely (completely?) uses static class references, which I am not a
> big fan of. It is convenient since the static references are  easily
> accessible from anywhere. But it means you can't overload it and use your
> own classes without some difficulty. Like a lot of frameworks, you need to
> commit to it and the way it does things.
>
> That said, Laravel is certainly a framework I would have on the short list
> of options. Symfony is also much better in v2 and they are taking a module
> approach. For example, Twig is now standalone.
>
> On Jan 14, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote:
>
> > On 01/14/2013 05:52 AM, Peter Sawczynec wrote:
> >> Can anyone offer me any thoughts, what you've heard,  background info or
> >> real world experience with Laravel?
> >>
> >
> > ExpandTheRoom (an agency in Manhattan) uses Laravel, from what I've
> heard.
> >
> >
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