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

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Robert Cummings <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> :)


sure :)

-nathan