Ask HN: What PHP Framework should I use?

1 point·jsh4ft··9 comments

I'm building a healthcare tool -- about to land first client for a large amount of money. I wrote a bunch of code by hand in PHP with jQuery and Bootstrap. MySQL in the backend.

Most of the User Interface is scrolling through DataTables or looking at graphs (Google Charts API) based on the data.

I was looking at either CakePHP or CodeIgniter -- but I'm open to others.

What would HN recommend?

Thanks!

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http://mavrck.com/blog/2013/01/ive-evaluated-php-frameworks-...

A recent writeup (not by me).

Would not recommend CodeIgniter, last time (~1 year ago) I used it it was a pain to get a proper ORM working with it.

http://www.yiiframework.com

It is actually really well suited to integrating existing code/database (with component architecture and model/controller generators) and takes a lot of principles from the RoR way of doing MVC.

Also, I'm a self taught developer and will be learning MVC and other concepts as I go.. From an old thread I'm seeing some people recommend Laravel but I haven't read into it further.

http://www.laravel.com

I recommend CodeIgniter Simple, fast, and did I mention simple?

how about symfony?

or why not do what many PHP devs have, and learn Ruby, then use something like Rails.

Well I'm interested in reusing my existing code and moving to a framework to increase flexibility and allow me to improve/update/change the site faster. I'd like this to be a small project of migrating my code into a framework.

I liked Silex

yii

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