Re: [newbie] Which framework for business apps?

Vincent Delporte wrote:
Hi

I'm only starting to look at how to write business apps as web
applications, and would like some feedback on frameworks to ease the
pain.

Unless I'm mistaken, tools like Savant or Smarty only help with
displaying information by replacing keywords in a template with
information fed from a PHP page that handles the business logic.

But a business application requires more features, such as:
- build forms for CRUD, including navigation bars
- allow some freedom to build pages that display data in a non-tabular
way (eg. I need to write pages that show data as bars and graphs, not
rows and columns, while still having to maintain the same look as the
rest of the pages including navigation bars, etc.)
- in input forms, validate each field, preferably as AJAX to avoid
the round-trip with the server
- etc.

Considering this... which PHP framework would you recommend? I've
started taking at CakePHP and ATK, but I'd rather not waste time on
tools that clearly aren't meant for building business applications.

Thanks for any tip.

I don't use a framework. I find it faster to just design a template for the site and build from scratch around that template. I can create pages faster than many people can create them with various frameworks.

Navigation bars are pretty standard. No problem there. Graphs aren't bad with a tool like JpGraph, and I use a few other packages for similar special circumstances.

But some people will swear by frameworks, which is fine for them. Just personally I don't find them to be of much use.

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