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When PHP Framework Sucks Series: PHP Frameworks overview

Damnjan Jovanovic on December 17, 2018

INTRO If you are working as a PHP software developer, there is an extremely high chance that all of your application, you’re currently w...
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buphmin

I have seen both sides, too much reliance on a framework and no framework. They both can be bad depending on how you use them. The really good frameworks, not just for PHP, give you ways to hook in plain objects into its system and give you the flexibility to do whatever you need. Though doing things in a good way is always up to the dev and framework or not can result in really bad code.

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Damnjan Jovanovic

I agree with you 100%, and you will see in this series that I will try to imply exactly that methodologies to hook up to the framework, not hard-wire.
In PHP frameworks plays an important role, since they really brought some good practice to every developer. But than devs become framework religious :(

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Damnjan Jovanovic

Hi, there :) thank you for your opinion. I read this article some time ago, and I believe it shares some points with this post, but however, I do not try to imply that the framework should not be used. Quite opposite, I believe frameworks have such a positive impact on the PHP community. I will only be pointing to the bad practices programmers applying while hiding behind the fact that "framework tutorial" say so.
I will publish soon next part of this series, I'm curious to see your opinion on next one (practical example).

Cheers!

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Vernet Loïc • Edited

I don't know if PHP frameworks suck. But your post title sucks for sure. 😆 I didn't read all for now, I will. But my first thoughts if that your are giving examples when frameworks are used the wrong way. Yes, everything suck when it is used the wrong way.