Re: [PHP] Re: php framework vs just php?

""Daniel Brown"" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Tony Marston
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> [snip!]
>>
>>  The real measure of a good framework is the length of time it takes to
>>  create a new database table, then write the components to maintain the
>>  contents of that table. I can do this in 5 minutes without having to 
>> write a
>>  single line of PHP, HTML or SQL. If you can't match this then you're not 
>> in
>>  the same league.
>
>    I had never heard this before.  Silly me.... I thought the "real
> measure of a good framework" was how much of the monotony of coding
> was removed, how many problems solved, et cetera.
>
>    So I guess the BASh script I just whipped up a few seconds ago
> could be classified as a good framework.  Since it's less than 40
> lines, and doesn't require me to write any PHP, HTML, or SQL, I meet
> the requirements.

Unless you are creating a PHP component which uses HTML forms to allow the 
user to communicate with a relational database then no, it does not qualify.

-- 
Tony Marston
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http://www.radicore.org

>    Once again, it's semantics.  Everyone is saying the same thing,
> just not using the same terminology.
>
> -- 
> </Daniel P. Brown>
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