[BNM] PHP Frameworks

[Andrei Serdeliuc]

Haven't used CakePHP or Symphony but I have been developing on Zend for 
about 7 months now and I can tell you its amazing. Some pros:

* easy to learn
* easy to integrate with ORM (Doctrine) http://www.phpdoctrine.org/
* freedom ... Zend Framework is one of the few frameworks that really 
applies the "framework" concept, a collection of tools meant to ease 
one's development job and thats what zend is, a collection of tools, use 
whatever you like ... delete the rest, develop MVC, three tier or 
without using any architectural pattern
* coding standards
* because of the structuring of the framework, you can easily extend it, 
develop plugins, helpers, etc.
* loads of core components: ACL, Cache, Date, Feed, Json, Layout, Mail, 
Rest, OpenID, Flickr, Validate and Session ... just to mention a few 
(the most important ones).
* excellent community support
* huge manual that would help even the most inexperienced developer
* native search engine (Lucene) that acts like a real search engine

Can't really think of any cons to the framework, but that might be just 
me loving it. If your looking for a professional, extremely scalable 
framework, Zend might be worth having a look at.

Julian Blundell wrote:
> Hi
>
> Been thinking of using a PHP framework for some time. The choices seem to
> be:-
>
> phpCake
> Symphony
> Zend
>
> Anybody got any opinions about strengths, weaknesses, other options etc.
>
> Jules
>