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by pixelbath 5624 days ago
The result looks extremely close to what I end up writing using CodeIgniter (http://codeigniter.com). You should give it a spin sometime.

To me, CodeIgniter felt less bloated than CakePHP (which is also an excellent framework, just not my style). CodeIgniter seems to stay out of the way more, and aside from having to initially rely heavily on the documentation, the framework is laid out in a way that makes sense.
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dangrossman 5624 days ago
Ever used Delicious.com, Yahoo! Answers or Yahoo! Bookmarks?

Then you've used a site built on the Symfony MVC framework. Make sure you check that out as well.

http://www.symfony-project.org/

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gikrauss 5624 days ago
I will definitely consider CodeIgniter for my next PHP project. It seems like a very good alternative to CakePHP and I definitely like a framework that tries to stay out of my code as much as possible. Thanks for the suggestion
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pan69 5624 days ago
CodeIgniter is a very entry level framework. You get up and running quickly but by the time you're halfway through building your site it starts to annoy the hell out of you. Go with Kohana (version 3) instead. Its quite easy to get up and running with, isn't bloated and comes with a very good ORM (ActiveRecord based) that takes care of 95% of the CRUD functionality.
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tszming 5624 days ago
No offense to Kohana3, but the documentation I found is a little bit confusing/incomplete/weak etc. (http://kohanaframework.org/guide/)
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pan69 5624 days ago
True. However, if you take a moment to look at the actual framework code it's pretty self explanatory. Nowadays my first port of call is the framework source before I Google or search anywhere else.
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DanHulton 5624 days ago
Also consider Kohana. CodeIgniter has something of a problem in that the devs aren't really updating it much these days or considering community suggestions. They've gone a fair ways recently to try to fix this problem, but a lot of good devs have given up and moved on.

Kohana broke off from CodeIgniter long ago, and has since embraced PHP 5.3 (No more $this->something->something_else->some_function() spam all over the place). It's nowadays a pretty different creature from CI, and IMHO far superiour.

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