Re: [Social-discuss] Which framework?

[László Török]

Hi,

I've been following the discussion about which mvc framework would be
the ideal choice for gnu social to be built on.
+1 vote for symfony 2.0
For about a year ago, I was looking for a php mvc framework for a
project. I did my homework and spent about 6 weeks looking at CakePHP,
CodeIgniter and Symfony 1.2. Read dozens of comparisons, case studies,
user reports.
I feel the Symfony guys got the model right offering the most
appealing answers for some of the pain spots of php mvc development.
Symfony 2.0 is a major architectural improvement over 1.x. They made
it more simple and more general. Less ceremony, less orchestration,
more efficiency.
An important point is good documentation and I would dare to say that
it has the most rapidly evolving ecosystem of all of the php mvc
frameworks.

I'd like to hear what others think about this.

Las

2010/3/24 Melvin Carvalho <address@hidden>:
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> 2010/3/24 Henry Litwhiler <address@hidden>
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>> On 3/24/10 6:14 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>> 2010/3/24 Matt Lee <address@hidden>
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>>> I'd like to see a discussion on which PHP framework we should be using,
>>> if any.
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>>> Symfony 2.0 -- http://symfony-reloaded.org/ is one that has already been
>>> mentioned.
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>> Yes this seems to be probably the leading candidate from our research too.
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>> http://fatfree.sourceforge.net/
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>> Was mentioned on #irc too
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>> Would be interested to see the thoughts of others ...
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>> While PHP could be a very good tool for displaying data and providing an
>> interface with GNU Social, I feel that it might be worth considering making
>> the "core" GNU Social application a desktop one that would perhaps interface
>> with an existing, standardized stack (LAMP, etc.) to serve the files to
>> other users' web browsers. The (Python? C?) desktop application could
>> include basic setting options, but would probably be mainly just something
>> running in the background, keeping the server/p2p connections live.
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> This is also the lines I was thinking for something similar I'm doing, a
> single or multi user PHP system, then maybe an app in python, however we
> already have gwibber, and the whole "social from the start" integrated
> social desktop stuff (Gnome/KDE) ... so there may be an argument for reuse
> ...
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>> --
>> Henry L.
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