From all of the topics, I covered at my "When PHP Framework Sucks" series, this one maybe annoys me the most. Not because I have a particular probl...
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The reason to not put config information inside PHP is because it makes the application useless when deploying to Heroku, ElasticBeanstalk, CloudFoundry, or any other large-scale cloud service. These cloud providers need to be able to pass critical information to the app such as which port to bind a listener to, or the current URL of the attached database instance, and so forth. Everything else is spot on though on here, nice work.
Hi Kenneth,
Thank you very much for this point I find it very valuable, and I will definitely use it as the only exception for putting configs outside of PHP code. On the other hand, I complained as well that yaml or XML files are used for defining relations between object, as well as annotations.
Thank you once again for spotting this.
Hi Damjan, I agree 100% about not defining classes or relations inside XML or YAML files, or any other file other than a .php file. I don't have much experience with frameworks that work this way, but it would probably drive me crazy to have to work in that manner.
Hi!
I work with two PHP frameworks:
Symfony, not by choice.
CakePHP by choice.
While the first one has every one of the problems you listed here, the second one is the exact opposite. Everything is PHP, you don't have any xml or yaml configuration files.
Saludos,
I've seen the container pattern used in Symfony as a way to allow circular dependencies. If A requires B and B requires A, then one of those needs to require a container and resolve what it needs when it needs it, instead of in constructor.