Which platform?

I have to do research on a couple of different platforms that are php incorporating object oriented. There seems to be a lot of rubbish out there that I have found so far. I know of codeigniter that is quite good.

Can anyone recommend one. Needs to be open source.

Thanks,

Vicki

General oop as tea
CodeIgniter to start(breakfast)
Cakephp for brunch
Zend for lunch
own framework for last…
lol

other most framework like kohana and all are good in some instance or may have limitations in some instance…

You can use Kohana PHP, KO3 for short…a PHP 5 framework…

I’ve created a system before that parses files/data log using Perl from around 800 machines and store in MySQL, then displays report and other functionality using that framework…works well.

http://www.kohanaphp.com (PHP5 only btw…)

Thanks for the link. I will check it out as well as Zend (I was told that you had to pay for it).

I mentioned CodeIgniter because we had played around with it earlier this year and seemed easy to get your head around.

We (diploma students for software and website development) are doing a website for Swinburne on renewable energy. It requires us to feed from the wind turbines and solar panel logs into a database and then display the results on the site. We are required to use php oo design and thought it better to use a framework than building it from scratch.

Thanks,
Vicki

There are dozens of OSS PHP frameworks:

http://www.phpframeworks.com/

You mention CodeIgnitor as good, why is that? CI, relative to say Zend, at least in terms of OO best practices and pattern implementation, is mediocre at best.

CI is a little easier to get the ball rolling but Zend adheres to more OO principles and practices. Depending on how robust you want your application to be and other requirements, it’s difficult to suggest any.

Cheers,
Alex