RE: [PHP] Re: PHP Frameworks - Opinion

On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 13:43 +0200, Arno Kuhl wrote: > I'm not so sure if the botanist wasn't saying in a rather confused way that > he was playing on the same side as PHPClasses, even if he did profess to be > in the other team. Did he say he was rolling his own (in a way only > botanists can do) or not? > What I am saying is that PHPClasses is a cool site, hell, I have even contributed a bunch of classes to it; but, what Manuel is saying, I do not agree with. I am all for choice, I am all for my project, and I am all for working collaboratively. I _choose_ to code strictly OOP, I don't have to. I choose to abstract almost everything in my code, nobody forcing me to do that. I choose to use many different authors GPL/BSD/PHP licenced code in my projects, not because of any other reason that I am lazy, and choose not to re-invent the wheel. I choose to do these things because I have the option to choose. I also choose to release every piece of code that I have ever written under a Free licence, not a freedom from price licence only. I choose to release all of my publications under a CC-BY-SA licence too. I am free, I think freely, and I have the freedom to do what needs to be done. I sleep well at night on the rare occasions that I am not coding Free Software. :) The main thing in Manual's post that got me writing this in the first place was : "Imagine if there would be only one PDBC (JDBC for PHP). Instead of that we have a never ending choice of PHP database abstraction layers that does not help newcoming developers that are lost and don't know what to use." Now in summation I say "That is just asinine". That is what makes PHP cool, especially in Africa. period. --Paul