Thanks for all the advice. A few people
have mentioned "Rails" - I assume they are talking about Ruby on
Rails which I have heard about but have no idea what exactly that kit gives
you. What is Rails exactly? Is it a brand name for a Ruby based development
framework tool? Is it a methodology like MVC?
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From: Rodney Oliver <roliver3@comcast.net>
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
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Sent: Saturday, June 3, 2006 5:18:43 PM GMT-0500
Subject: RE: [PLUG] LAMP development framework
I second the cakephp framework. Try looking at codeigniter.com too.
-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of Matt Ayres
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 12:35 PM
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
Subject: Re: [PLUG] LAMP development framework
W. Chris Shank wrote:
> I've got a highly modified SugarCRM implementation that has grown to the
> point that it's impossible to continue to add SugarCRM updates without
> breaking the modifications. I'm on the fence about the painful upgrade
> process of trying to get this thing to a Sugar 4.2 base. Most of the
> features that make SugarCRM useful aren't used, so I'm contemplating
> rewriting the application to serve only the needs that are actually
> used. I'd like to start with a framework of some sort so that I don't
> have to get bogged down.
>
> What frameworks would be good for creating a medium complexity web
> application? I prefer PHP / MySQL, but would consider another framework
> (except Java).
>
You could look at CakePHP, it's essentially "PHP-on-rails".
Thanks,
Matt Ayres
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