Can anyone recommend me a good PHP framework ? Is anyone using any framework at all ? I've been coding PHP pages for years without a framework and it's getting to be a pain in the ass. I've looked around and found some but they are all too "rigid" (for lack of a better word) to me. They don't give me the amount of freedom that I want to do. Before I sit down and write one myself I figured I'll give a shout out and see if anyone has come across anything. The "best" i've found so far is Smarty (http://smarty.php.net/) but there's got to be a better one out there. Any recommendations ?
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i've never used a framework. i thought about it. i write the same code over and over again, and keep thinking to myself there must be a better way to do this. but, i don't think there is. every site/project is different, i can't see anyway i could possible make a generic framework, unless the sites were pretty much identical, which is never the case.
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Yeah, that's one of the reasons why I don't like these existing frameworks for PHP too much. Every site looks and feels the same way because of the limitation the framework posses on you. It's like producing sites with a cookie cutter. When I'm doing Java stuff I use the Struts framework (http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/) and it's very cool because it gives me almost infinate freedom to separate my content and the layout of how I'm presenting that content. The only problem with it is that it's a bitch to maintain and it requires a LOT of backend code to have the site nice and fluid. I guess I'll be sticking to the PHP modules I've wrote over the years contaning all the utility function I like to reuse in every of my webproject. Maybe someday when I sit down and think it through harder I might write something with hopes that it will not require as much backend code as Struts
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