Professional Code Reuse In Php

Hey frnd, i reaaly don't know much about the issues u want answered but i salute the efforts you've made in your days of "from the Scratch". A teacher once told me in IT whats important is not "What the solution is" but "Where u can find it". So I advise the use the loads of PHP forums available on d net, I'm sure they'II be willing to help.

I used a relatively light weight framework called Codeigniter from  http://codeigniter.com/ to develop oroede at http://oroede.sourceforge.net/oroede/.   Using the framework saves time, being like you mentioned it is a pain to reinvent the wheel everytime you have to develop an application.

Each framework has it pros and cons.  I chose CodeIgniter because it was easy to learn, as seen from their introductory tutorial at http://codeigniter.com/tutorials/ ,  but CakePHP has been a headache to learn, but it has been around longer and has a bigger code-base with really cool integration to Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX, where CodeIgniter is just catching up.

Zend's framework is supported by the writer's of the Engine of PHP, but it is still in "Beta" development stage and woe to one who spends month developing on "Beta" platform only to find that final release breaks all your code. In the long run once stable, Zend will be the framework for me, cause those guys at Zend do great work.

Otuyelu!

What is oro ede wa?! Just kidding. Thank God its Open Source. I have always dreamt of doing some techie thing in Yoruba. I thought my former HOD (Prof Sophie Oluwole) how to use Pradigm Lingua by Dr Asaolu to edit her Philosophy works in Yoruba, particularly her novel research in IFA. I study Philosphy and specialises in African (Yoruba) Philosophy, Logic and AI.

I can see the invitation for Yoruba translators. I write Yoruba as much as I write PHP! Can I join?

My Yahoo ID is naijaguru

Cheers.

Thanks for codeigniter. I am currently looking in cake, challenging, but progressing.

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There is nothing like developing web-application form the scratch,  Have been developing web application for the past 8 years now and have got to learn that one can never grow form copy & paste script.

For years  now i have always developed my own libraries. With the coming of PHP5 last years its now much better to develop your own set of liberties with standard API.

Smarty & PEAR  is good but believe me,If you can develope applications form the scratch you would be able to develop libraries  that iare 2x faster , secured and has more easy interface than what you have now.

A tipical example is when using PHP5 default SoapClient for and ASP WebService (Which Sometimes does not send Soap Fault dues to poor programming). If no soap fault are sent and an error occurs form the ASP soapServer it creates a fatal error in PHP because not SoapFault was sent.

Even is_soap_fault() does not dictected the error and even if  you set error_reporting(0) or create your own Exception your application would shut down prematurely but if you write your own application you can be able to manage all this even better.



The best way to use OS code is :

Study the concept
Do some benchmark 
Look for errors
Try to hack them
Now look for a way improve on then call that v1.0
then now create yours form the scratch because i want to believe that form working on the, you should have gained a lot of experience.

Framework :

Its not so hard to dabble  in to Frameworks.
Each Framework has its own plugins , lib etc.

EG. You know symfony files are located :
apps/
batch/
cache/
config/
data/
doc/
lib/
log/
plugins/
test/
web/


All you need i to start form the config area and begin to study them, In less than 2 weeks  dending on how good you are in programming you would score a goal.


I hope this helps  , am also willing to learn more


Oleku
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