Do any of you experts use CakePHP or Zend ?

[jeddiki]

Hi,

I am just starting out with OOP PHP

I have done the Free tutes over at KillerPHP and have a good
idea of what its about.

I also visited the CakePHPO website and read all about components, behaviors and helpers and see that they have some core objects ready to use.
The conventions make sense ( if I can remember them !)

Just noticed that there is an example - building a blog.
I guess that following that would be the best way to really understand it all.

Has anyone done that example ?
Does it help ?

It will take some time to install cake and learn it, is it really
the best option ?

Or should I look at Zend? Are they similar ?

Thanks for any enlightenment :)

[Dormilich]

It will take some time to install cake and learn it, is it really the best option?

that depends upon what you want to do in the future. Using a frameworks usually makes coding easy and fast, but sacrificing flexibility to a certain point (you have to use the framework’s API)

[jeddiki]

Do you use either of them?

Which one ?

[Dormilich]

nope, I’m not a professional, so fast coding is not my concern. and I’m still learning PHP.

[hsriat]

The important thing in the frameworks is they provide you MVC structure. You can fill your code in it and make it work.
If you are on a small project, I would recommend you prefer not to use any framework and make a small one based on MVC that you think would be flexible enough for your future expansion of the code.

This can actually result into a discussion as many developers always prefer already one of the existing frameworks as they are too familiar with it to make it work for any project.

[Markus]

I would recommend CodeIgniter for a beginner learning OOP. It's a very simple and effective framework. Zend is huge, and CakePHP is for the more advanced programmer.

CodeIgniter