Ask HN: Best PHP Framework for Web Development

Re:Ask HN: Best PHP Framework for Web Development by mootothemax on Friday May 11, 2012 @12:23PM (#3959974)

I favour Kohana (http://kohanaframework.org/). Very quick and easy to get the core of your app built. Only (and potentially major) downside is that the documentation can be tricky to wade through.

I'd run away from CakePHP. Caveat: last version I worked with was 1.3. The weird way it uses arrays in its ORM to kinda-sorta-but-not-quite work on the database always hurts my head. In fact, the whole way of going about things in CakePHP hurts my head.

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Re:Ask HN: Best PHP Framework for Web Development by gyardley on Friday May 11, 2012 @01:10PM (#3960212)

Agreed.

Kohana's tutorials are pretty bad, but the API browser is solid and the code of the framework itself is very readable.

As a beginner, having to dig under the hood of Kohana to fully understand it initially turned me off, but I came away with a much better understanding of how MVC frameworks work.

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Re:Ask HN: Best PHP Framework for Web Development by trevelyan on Saturday May 12, 2012 @05:03AM (#3963278)

I've never had any problem with CakePHP and am curious what you mean.

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