Lately I have been looking at some ways to optimize my php development. I have been looking at templating engines, frameworks and php objects. I have noticed that for each site or project I end coding a lot of the same function or copying functions from previous projects to build a similar class that does what I need. This has become a noticeable waste of time and is rather boring. I have looked into Ruby on Rails but I haven’t decided if I want to learn another language or not. Also there is nothing like the php community with tons of open source projects, documentation, and tutorials. I really feel that php will be my server side language of choice. Back to the topic.
I realized that there are a lot of of frameworks and I really don’t want to spend the time to go through each of them so I have been reading other programmers reviews of each framework to make my choice. My main concern is how easily it is to manipulate a MySQL database. I have written so many add, update, and delete queries that I feel like that’s all I ever do.
My first Framework that I have looked at. PHP on TRAX looks very limited compared to some other frameworks. It used to be called php or rails but decided to come up with their own name.
To be continued after more research…