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I like what I see, but is FuelPHP right for me?
  • RukiriRukiri
    Right now I'm just touching up my web layout and ready to crack open netbeans and start coding, however I do have some questions about FuelPHP considering I only glanced the docs to see if this is a right fit. Right now I'm leaning towards Symfony2 mainly because it's "enterprise" ready and used by large companies and also because it's stable, flexible, and proven. I'm not considering codeignitor mainly because it holds your hand too much the same can be said about cakePHP, and Yii is more of a Rails for PHP type of framework. I'm now looking at FuelPHP because A) it's new, and B) it's new and was developed with PHP5, however FuelPHP does seem to "want" to hold your hand while developing and I always say that's a no no as you should know what your doing but that's only an observation of the code and how 'eerily similar" it is to codeignitor.
  • HarroHarro
    If your question is "is FuelPHP ready for enterprise applications", then the answer is "absolutely". We don't do anything but, enterprise (intranet) applications is our core business, and we've been using FuelPHP for that since the first 1.0/develop. It is one of our design goals to support easy development of enterprise applications, hence the support for Viewmodels (aka presenters), built-in support for HMVC , multiple environment, REST, etc. For version 2 we are going to take this a step further, and introduce multiple application support within a single FuelPHP installation, which next to packages and modules will provide a higher layer of modularisation and opportunity for re-use. Before FuelPHP we mainly used CodeIgniter, and I have to say our productivity went up significantly after the switch. I don't know where you got the idea from FuelPHP is similar to CodeIgniter. It isn't in any respect, not from an architecture point of view, and not from code. Can you give examples of what exactly you mean?
  • RukiriRukiri
    Well thank you for answering my question, I should have noted that the coded just looked similar I didn't mean they're exactly the same. Most of my experience is with Symfony2 and am just looking for a lighter and more productive framework.
  • HarroHarro
    Then you're absolutely in the right place. And "hints" of a CI past are possible, after all, all FuelPHP core developers (probably with the exception of Frank) have a hard-core CI background. We started FuelPHP for exactly the same reason, we needed a framework that allows us to be (a lot) more productive, and had features that are needed for larger and more scalable application, which CI didn't provide.
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