fatvegan

Code Igniter is a really sweet MVC-ish framework. I've been spending my last week of sickness reading about all the PHP frameworks, and fiddling about with some of them. Seagull, Cake and Code Igniter seem to be the best.

Seagull is a bit of a mess, but seems to be built by more practical than average sorts of PHP coders. It has Flexy templates, and over the years I've come to like Flexy a lot. It's not the quickest template language to get productive with, but then none of them really are.

Cake is pretty closely modelled on Rails, and is good.

But my favourite was Code Igniter, even though it doesn't have models in a proper sense. But it's really sensibly designed so it's easy to extend. I find with most frameworks, if you don't do what you're told by the tutorials and manuals, you won't get very far. It's also really light and fast, unlike PEAR-based frameworks, and probably Rails.

But I'm more convinced than ever that Ruby (probably with Rails in tag) are going to take over the world. The only real argument I've heard for using a PHP framework is that not all hosting providers do Rails. Which doesn't bode well for PHP. Who knows how long it's embeddedness advantage will last.