Re: Frameworks

Certainly LaRavel seems to be the only one that has remained on an upward curve over the years - and that seems to be a worldwide trend whereas others can have more regional variance. I have no personal experience though.

The most obvious one omitted from your list is Zend framework. You might want to talk to Alan Seiden about that. The initial versions were overly complex for my taste but I'm told the later versions dealt with that and allowed for an easier use of parts of the framework.

Depending on the type of project there are other simpler approaches that you might consider. One that I've used and love is PHPGrid which can be used for the CRUD aspects of a project and integrated with other component based frameworks. Not free but very low cost (< $500).


Jon Paris

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On Jun 17, 2018, at 3:36 AM, Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Cross posted on web400 and midrange-l

I am in the planning stage for a new project that we are using PHP on i
for. PHP will provide the user interface and will call ILERPG for
validation and database updates.

As this is a larger project we have been looking at frameworks and are
currently reviewing the following;

1) Laravel
2) CodeIgniter
3) CakePHP

From our brief review we have come up with the following;

Laravel looks like it's gained a lot of traction recently and is the
current leader in frameworks although . . It looks like has a steeper
learning curve over CodeIgniter and CakePHP and it may be most difficult to
get running on an IBM i as it uses the command line for certain tasks

CodeIgniter looks good too as it is more simple to set up and use. It's not
as feature rich as Laravel but it seems to have everything we require for
the project

CakePHP is one of the original PHP frameworks but I think it's loosing
traction.


Has anyone used any of these frameworks or any others that we have not
looked at ?

Any comments or suggestions about using these or other frameworks ?

Thank you for any assistance, feedback or comments.


Don Brown

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