Recall that in the 60’s, GM stepped in to “help” the city of L.A. fix its public transportation system.

Of course, the system was ruined which, coincidentally enough, caused people to buy more cars.

Likewise think trying to reinvent struts is a bad idea but in a more loose defition of framework there鈥檚 room to do a lot of good, without getting into 鈥淎ctionMappings鈥�

mmmh…..if find “ActionMappings” ala CakePHP quite interesting.
What’s wrong with it anyway?

I am also under the impression that IBM being what they are – a giant – that Zend will proberly have little say in the matter of how it unfolds.

I’m not saying this is a bad idea, IBM have done some cool stuff but I agree that PHP is unique and that uniqueness will as I see it, be glossed over.

Also, I don’t use Eclipse, so what are the option for me and other developers who don’t use that said IDE? Are we going to be left out in the cold :eek:

Then again, let’s wait and see if Zend make a complete a*** of it first ;)

SDOs add some interesting capabilities for working with data in PHP, whilst maintaining the simple, easy-to-use interfaces PHP developers expect.

Personally, even if this framework is not the most elegant design, would be happy to make sacrifices in that direction if I know it is going to be well supported and maintained. Some popular PHP eggs may get broken along the way though.

Is this because of Rails?

I doubt it – the need for something like this has been around for a long time. It almost surprising that no other big players have spotted the business opportunity here – PHP is, after all, everywhere.