Did You PHP Before Framework Era?
September 29th, 2008
I tend to see many developers, that started out programming in PHP a couple of years ago and they started out with a framework, because it’s ‘easy’ and not knowing anything about optimization, performance, when should you use a framework and when you should leave it out…
Frameworks, just like mobile phones, are getting beyond their purpose. A framework should help developers code better and not to enforce it’s style of programming.
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September 29th, 2008
Yeah I did, and it was freakin’ horrible ;p
September 29th, 2008
Agreed. The same for me :).
September 30th, 2008
That is why you have to be careful to choose your framework, A framework is a bag of patterns and good practices. PHP encourage to be very dirty and horrible kitchen sink. I suggest to try Ruby/Rails or Python/Django or Java/Wicket and you will see the difference of how a web framework should be.