I was surfing around checking out some of the popular entries to the PHP framework world today, when I came across this excellent Application Flow Chart diagram over at CodeIgniter.
The Flow Chart
CodeIgniter looks to be an interesting framework from the people behind Expression Engine. My interest was peaked when looking through their expansive documentation and coming across the following diagram:
This is an excellent visualization of how a system could work in PHP, and it’s worth reading the page its on if you are newer to PHP and toughing it out by building your own systems without a framework.
Frameworks
There are some great offerings out there these days, and having spent some time looking around it wouldn’t be easy to choose one from the bunch. If you happen to be in that situation, here’s a pile of posts worth checking out:
- Understanding the Zend Framework
- How Fast Is Your Framework?
- CodeIgniter vs. CakePHP
- CakePHP & CodeIgniter Benchmark
Some of the systems above do have a lot to offer, if you happen to use one of them, feel free to let me know why in the comments. I’m still having trouble convincing myself that it is worth it, being somewhat attached to the idea of a no framework-framework…
