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

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 13:14 -0600, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Eric Butera <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Nathan Nobbe <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >  interestingly, prototype claims it is a framework.
> >
> > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+framework&btnG=Google+Search
> >
> > Lots of differing opinions.  :)  Seeing as script.aculo.us and all
> > that stuff is written on Prototype, it hits on some of those
> > definitions.
> >
> 
> 
> one characteristic i would attribute to frameworks is that they impose
> global conventions on a project, such as where certain types of files must
> reside; whether files can be placed in subdirectories, how urls must be
> formed and so on..  libraries can pretty much be included anywhere and the
> only conventions they impose is those that could be found in any other group
> of packages / classes / functions, proprietary or otherwise.

I'm sure you meant "some" framework do what you've written above.

:)

Cheers,
Rob.
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