Re: Re: Templates, PHP Frameworks, and DB Abstraction?

Manuel Lemos wrote:

on 06/30/2006 11:38 AM Jay Paulson said the following:

I'd like to get some feedback on what the list thinks is a good template engine other than smarty. I'd also like to do some quick prototyping using a PHP framework does anyone have any recommendations for one that is easy to pick up and run with? Finally, does anyone have any suggestions for a good PHP database abstraction library?

You may want to take a look at this post for a few recommendations: http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/52-Recommended-PHP-frameworks.html

That is a nice sales pitch Manuel but takes bit of digesting. Jay - This is a 'how long is a piece of string' type question. So there are as many answers as there are developers here ;) I've only ever used Smarty - and not seen anything yet to replace it. PDO is being pushed as a DB Abstraction library, but it only 'abstracts' the calls to PHP, it does nothing to abstract the SQL if you want a truly generic solution, if you need one, but if you don't then why bother with abstraction ;) I've been running with bitweaver now for some time, and things are starting to come together. It uses Smarty and ADOdb and can install itself on a range of database engines without any 'manual intervention'. So I am happy that it is a generic framework that is easy to run with. www.bitweaver.org -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://home.lsces.co.uk/ModelEngineersDigitalWorkshop/ Treasurer - Firebird Foundation Inc. - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php