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."

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What about PHP using HOOD?

[dotslashdot]

For the rest of us hip hop inclined programmers, there is PHP using HOOD (Hizous Object Oriented Development) in case you get tired of the WASP crowd.

Re:Modern web programmers have moved elsewhere

[GigsVT]

Lately, however, a lot of programmers have moved onto Ruby on Rail

No, they haven't

You are buying into the hype. Apparently a miniscule but vocal minority of people have even heard of Ruby on Rails. Most of them seem to read this site.

Re:actually, the "sting" of php5 is...

[acroyear]

Ruby has yet to show itself to me as "something better". it simply "something else". Python was "something better" and has managed to still be too damn much trouble every time I say "i'm going to do this project in python so i can learn the damn language".

and go back and read my post: even if i wanted to switch, i might not be able to because my webhost company may not support the language (though with mine, i could probably talk them into it if i felt like it), and that doesn't solve the REAL problem of PHP (upgrades break backwards compatibility), it merely sidesteps it by changing dependencies.

There is nothing in Ruby so far that has shown me that it won't be doing exactly the same thing of breaking backwards compatibility ever major upgrade the way php has.