Ask HN: What PHP Framework should I use?

#1

Post by jsh4ft » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:15 PM UTC

I'm building a healthcare tool -- about to land first client for a large amount of money. I wrote a bunch of code by hand in PHP with jQuery and Bootstrap. MySQL in the backend.

Most of the User Interface is scrolling through DataTables or looking at graphs (Google Charts API) based on the data.

I was looking at either CakePHP or CodeIgniter -- but I'm open to others.

What would HN recommend?

Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What PHP Framework should I use?

#2

Post by jsh4ft » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:18 PM UTC

Also, I'm a self taught developer and will be learning MVC and other concepts as I go.. From an old thread I'm seeing some people recommend Laravel but I haven't read into it further.

Re: Ask HN: What PHP Framework should I use?

#3

Post by timmillwood » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:20 PM UTC

how about symfony?

or why not do what many PHP devs have, and learn Ruby, then use something like Rails.

Re: Ask HN: What PHP Framework should I use?

#4

Post by 0x0 » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:21 PM UTC

I liked Silex

Re: Ask HN: What PHP Framework should I use?

#5

Post by jsh4ft » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:25 PM UTC

timmillwood wrote: post #3

how about symfony? or why not do what many PHP devs have, and learn Ruby, then use something like Rails.

Well I'm interested in reusing my existing code and moving to a framework to increase flexibility and allow me to improve/update/change the site faster. I'd like this to be a small project of migrating my code into a framework.

Re: Ask HN: What PHP Framework should I use?

#6

Post by Glowbox » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:32 PM UTC

http://mavrck.com/blog/2013/01/ive-evaluated-php-frameworks-...

A recent writeup (not by me).

Would not recommend CodeIgniter, last time (~1 year ago) I used it it was a pain to get a proper ORM working with it.

Re: Ask HN: What PHP Framework should I use?

#7

Post by ishener » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:33 PM UTC

I recommend CodeIgniter Simple, fast, and did I mention simple?

Re: Ask HN: What PHP Framework should I use?

#8

Post by wesley » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:39 PM UTC

http://www.laravel.com

Re: Ask HN: What PHP Framework should I use?

#9

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 5:46 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What PHP Framework should I use?

#10

Post by prplhaz4 » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 9:23 PM UTC

http://www.yiiframework.com

It is actually really well suited to integrating existing code/database (with component architecture and model/controller generators) and takes a lot of principles from the RoR way of doing MVC.