PHP Frameworks Part II

Ever since Ruby on Rails came on the scene, frameworks have become a hot topic...and in keeping with the PHP developer's mantra, "if one is good, a hundred must be better" Rails-like MVC frameworks - such as cake, symfony, PHP on TRAX (to name but a few) - abound. 

In light of their proliferation and the time commitment to learn them, choosing a framework can sometimes feel like renting B-grade movies at the video store; it's not so much the cost that concerns you, but rather the time wasted if you select a dog.  Faced with such a challenge last year, Seth Arronsen thought BostonPHP might be a good venue for a PHP framework bake-off.

At the March BostonPHP user group Seth continued our PHP Framework discussion, this time hearing from:

• Matthew Weier O'Phinney - Zend Framework developer, and
• Chuck Hagenbuch - founder of HORDE

Those who missed the meeting or would like to hear the presentation again can subscribe to our podcast channel or Listen Now!...The podcast lasts about two hours and offers rich insight into HORDE and the Zend Framework as each presenter develops a basic CRUD application.  Slides from the presentation can be download here for Horde and Zend.

The Zend Framework aims to provide a complete repository of high quality, actively supported components for developing web applications powered byPHP 5.

Matthew Weier O'Phinney was introduced to PHP in 2000 and has been developing PHP professionally since 2001. He is currently a PHPdeveloper with Zend Technologies, Inc., where he works in their OnlineOperations and Zend Framework teams.

Chuck Hagenbuch founded the Horde Project in 1998 and has been working with PHP and the world of web development ever since. He is currently a consultant doing work focused around Horde and PHP web development. He has provided professional PHP services to many prominent PHP-using organizations, including Google, PayPal, and Portugal Telecom.