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Other Pineapple Smurf
Honorary Master
I've been using Symfony since 1.0 - in a nuts shell, its a Java system for PHP developers. Much of the terminology and practices are heavily influenced by Java.
It was really awesome when it was still 1.0 (I still code daily in that version), but sucks donkey balls since 1.3 and 1.4 (I refuse to work on it). Took me 3 weeks to get a simple HTML form to work in 1.4 as it forces you to use their method of handling sequences in a database.
So I second CakePHP as Symfony 1.0 was built on it.
It was really awesome when it was still 1.0 (I still code daily in that version), but sucks donkey balls since 1.3 and 1.4 (I refuse to work on it). Took me 3 weeks to get a simple HTML form to work in 1.4 as it forces you to use their method of handling sequences in a database.
So I second CakePHP as Symfony 1.0 was built on it.
boswald
Senior Member
I recently just use CakePHP to do a project. Very very nice. Only thing that got on my nerves was the automatic naming of files and making sure you have the right case if you on linux vs windows. But other than that, very very cool and very easy to implement.
I would not learn any framework written in PHP4, the same applies for Codeigniter. Codeigniter 2 will be completely PHP5 so that is really good.
Symfony is good, one of the biggest complaints is that it is too coupled but that is changing for the good. It is an unfinished product but you may want to give Symfony Reloaded a bash as it is written entirely in PHP5.3 and has all that goodness supported. Next to that I would recommend YII which is a 'railsy' type frame work.
Sorry to hear that, that is very cr@ppy! In the UK it is a developers market, if you have any skillz you can pretty much just walk into any job.
GL in the job search
Other Pineapple Smurf
Honorary Master
Its also a developers market in SA. The only long-term unemployed developers I know are unemployed for a reason.
@midrange, good luck with the job hunting. Market is good but the timing is bad. Feb is when it picks up again.
Exactly.
Writing was on the wall, to be honest, I was the only employee left, was waiting until Jan to make a move. Will have to skip next semester's Unisa fees, unless my (notoriously unreliable) freelance clients suddenly aren't... unreliable.
Back on topic, the reason I've used CI so extensively is shared hosting environments. That framework will run on any LAMP config. Asked a host for a client of mine to install the mysql pdo extension so I could use Yii. "No problem", was the reply. That was 3 weeks ago.
Happy Christmas!
Happy Christmas!
I agree codeigniter is a great framework, used it on many web projects, great documentation. The reason I wanted to try symfony, is that I hear version 2 is really fast, so wanted to get paws on it and have a good grasp by the time it is released.