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Comment on Zend Framework vs Codeigniter vs CakePHP vs others by Christof

Christof — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:58:46 +0000

Hi,
As for ZF and RAD, sure I agree CI and Yii is perhaps more RAD frameworks, but remember its not always about RAD, ZF has many other superior benefits.
ZF is better suited for medium-large enterprise solutions, ZF is not like most frameworks, with a “one size fits all” mentality.

Have a look at the arsenal of high-quality, fully tested libraries available for ZF, you will have virtually no need to reinvent the wheel or waste time debugging 3rd party libraries – again a huge time saver.

ZF2.0 is addressing a lot of RAD concerns and I’m sure you’ll love it!

Comment on Zend Framework vs Codeigniter vs CakePHP vs others by rjm

rjm — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:30:31 +0000

I’m a new to PHP frameworks and as most people say this view seems one sided the largest point deterring me from Zend is that is doesn’t focus on rapid application development as much as other frameworks do. Isn’t the point of a framework to get things done faster? I’ve read comments on people saying at times it can be counter productive and is a lot slower compared to other frameworks. Right now I’m just lost between, Zend, Codeigniter and Yii.

Comment on Zend Framework vs Codeigniter vs CakePHP vs others by gigi

gigi — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:46:12 +0000

Thanks for this awesome post! It definitely opens my mind on the eternal choice of the best framework… I vote zfw now!

Comment on Zend Framework vs Codeigniter vs CakePHP vs others by Christof

Christof — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:45:26 +0000

Rohjay,
feel free to choose any of your own opinions as the correct one.
Regarding ZF performance, I suggest you read this ZF Fast…

“Seconding Joe’s answer. I’ve also seen ZF deployed on a few sites handling millions of requests and have yet to encounter a problem. When dealing with that amount of traffic it’s a good idea to use other strategies beyond your framework, including but not limited to caching and the use of a CDN.”

As I’ve stated before, any framework will be slow if coded by amateurs, and almost all frameworks and large systems these days deploy caching, CDN, Cloud or other load balancing techniques.

Comment on Zend Framework vs Codeigniter vs CakePHP vs others by Rohjay

Rohjay — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:19:41 +0000

I’m a newbie to web development and the question of “which framework” is on my plate right now. I also find this to be a one sided view.

In this debate, one of the down-sides to the Zend Framework is that it has performance issues – I don’t have a huge budget for web hosting and it’s a concern. Dismissing these concerns by saying it “is absolute rubbish and just an ignorant attach to try and discredit” is a defensive statement with zero information behind it. Are you being defensive for a reason?

If you’re a smart guy (and I think you are), don’t discredit yourself with such an openly slanted view on things.

To better days!
Rohjay

Comment on Zend Framework vs Codeigniter vs CakePHP vs others by Jono

Jono — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:53:02 +0000

Converting from 1.7 to 2.0….its not naive. Its reality. I did it. Find and replace. Really.

Yes, there are drawbacks to CI. But I wasnt arguing about that.

Comment on Zend Framework vs Codeigniter vs CakePHP vs others by Christof

Christof — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:21:59 +0000

Jono,
5minutes to convert an application is a very naive statement, however in the real world it will probably take you hours to days to convert a full application, testing included.
Backward compatibility is not my biggest dislike with CI, its the fact that everything is still not OO and CI is still conducive to bad programming practices, global functions everywhere, classes when you feel like it, and not to mention the poor libraries and configuration management – if you want to be an activist for the smaller frameworks, then please be one for Yii and not CI.

Comment on Zend Framework vs Codeigniter vs CakePHP vs others by Jono

Jono — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:50:35 +0000

Uh, not backwards compatible from CI1.7 to 2.0? Where did you get that nonsense from? It takes 5 minutes to convert a 1.7 site to 2.0.

Comment on freelance web development vs full-time job by Nadeem

Nadeem — Mon, 09 May 2011 11:21:58 +0000

Freelancing can be a very pretty picture when thinking and talking about it but there are way more responsibilities doing it.

When freelancing you are taking on multiple roles and successful freelancers are the ones who can mix all the ingredients right.

I have been working full time for the past 8years and Ive been freelancing for the same period after hours. Working like this can burn you out but slowly building up a client base over the years and establishing good relationships will put you in a much better position when you are ready to take that leap.

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