Taking the Sting Out of PHP 5 Programming

bfioca writes "Where are the all-in-one PHP frameworks that make building well-factored and maintainable applications as easy as building simple sites? O'Reilly ONLamp's recent article Simplify PHP Development with WASP shows how to make a simple database-backed site with WASP in just a few lines of code. Other PHP 5 frameworks such as symfony and PRADO have been getting a lot of recent attention as well."

Comments

Drupal?

[rjung2k]

I don't claim to be a web architecture guru, but what's wrong with Drupal? Open source, PHP 5-friendly, and does everything from vanity sites to corporate sites.

Re:Drupal?

[truthsearch]

No, it takes no hacking to work multisite. I'm running 3 sites on one code base right now. The URLs are very short. There's nothing horrible about them. And if you turn on the right module you can automatically link to /title/page+title. Learn about an app before complaining about it.

Re:Drupal?

[kbahey]

Disclaimer: I am a Drupal community member and developer.

I think you have to hack it to get it to work multisite?

Nope.

Drupal has multi site out of the box, and has been like that for years. For some 18 months, I ran 4 different domain out of the same code base and the same database even (with database prefixes).

Also, the URLs are pretty horrible.

Drupal boasts "clean URLs" out of the box as well. This means that urls do not have to be www.example.com?q=node/123 but rather www.example.com/node/123 (this requires mod_rewrite).

Moreover, Drupal has out of the box the path module which allows you to alias any page to any URL you like. There is also a contributed module (pathauto) that makes this totally automated.

Check my web site for examples (all URLs are aliased).