For anyone looking to get into PHP development now, check out Laravel:
It's a Rails-like framework for PHP, and seems to be pretty well designed. I wouldn't start a new PHP project without it.
It's a Rails-like framework for PHP, and seems to be pretty well designed. I wouldn't start a new PHP project without it.
The bare metal lack of abstraction in PHP that other languages have to have but PHP doesn't can be one of its strengths.
The idea is that Laravel gives you a huge solid launching pad and takes the busy work out of making a website run.
Which is an interesting question in and of itself - what's the minimum viable feature set for a modern PHP framework? I would say a PSR autoloader, Composer and a url router, and everything else is superfluous. Most people wouldn't even count that as a microframework, and I understand that. And it probably wouldn't scale for crap either.
Although one thing I really like about laravel, which technically has nothing to do with laravel, is Artisan. Using .phar files as command line applications doesn't get as much attention as it should, maybe.
This would make the ultimate pico framework for PHP.
Fast and a really good documentation.