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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up ... by Geee on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:50AM (#17219502)
This might be true if you're creating a very simple web site that is never meant to be a real app. If you're creating a more complex web app, with authentication, user management, billing, admin pages, etc. you are better off with frameworks such as Laravel, Symphony or Slim if you are using PHP.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up ... by shadowmint on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:26AM (#17219976)
This is correct.

...it is also why php is not really any significantly better choice than any other framework/language combination.

The benefits of ‘plain php’ (simplicity) disappear quite quickly when you’re doing anything non trivial.

I would never choose php without one of those framework stacks; it doesn’t scale, its prone to hideous security issues and its a fugly mess of reinventing the wheel.

Frankly, anyone doing this these days has no idea what they’re doing.

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