Re: Re: Question: what are frameworks?

Ralph Deffke wrote:

good question !! I think the word "framework" is modern fashion term in the first case. in former days we used to say "library" C comes with a standard library, in modern words C comes with a standard framework. I use my own framework, means I reuse my code written for similar things before, so I use my "framework". its like a painter, he uses a ready made frame to paint what ever he wants, u can use the yahoo UI framework to "paint" ur page. A operating system is a "framework" unifieing the underlaying hardware. as in former days u said "library" u say more modern "framework" in both cases its a bunch of functions doing some stuff the user of the framework hasn't to take care about by using the framework. hope that helps

I think framework is different than library. Pear is a collection of libraries. PECL (and binary modules that ship with php) are a collection of libraries. I don't use pre-packaged frameworks so it probably is best for me not to define them, but I think they are a basically a collection of classes and libraries intended to make rapid development of web applications faster.