Re: Gx based on existing PHP MVC framework?

> Splitting from the main Gx thread. Seemed like a big subject unto  
> itself...
>
> When the thought of using an existing framework was tossed out a few  
> weeks back, I wondered how seriously is this option being considered.  
> If thoughts on this subject have already been discussed in IRC or in  
> the thread, I may have missed them, sorry.
>
> Could folks share their thoughts on this subject here?
>
> Seems like making the choice to use a framework could free up  
> developer cycles and provide more focus on Gx feature development. On  
> the other hand, the Gallery framework is pretty damned powerful,  
> tested, and known by the team. Thoughts? What are your attachments/
> interests in using Gallery 2, existing PHP Frameworks, or something  
> else as a foundation?
>
> Here's what I've read/heard recently about about CodeIgniter and Zend  
> Framework.
>
> CodeIgniter seems to now be known as providing significantly better  
> performance than the rest of the frameworks. This is in part due to  
> Rasmus' recent talk on PHP Frameworks.  Other than performance, I  
> don't know much else about the merits of CodeIgniter.
>
> http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/08/29/rasmus-lerdorf-php-frameworks-think-again/
>
> I've worked a bit with the Zend Framework in recent months. It's been  
> dinged for increasingly poor performance in recent releases. The next  
> major release promises to focus heavily on performance improvements.  
> Their roadmap states that v2.0 will heavily leverage improvements in  
> PHP 5.3. ZF has support for unit testing (to some degree), dojo  
> integration (should be able to substitute YUI or other), a nice ACL  
> component, and Zend_Tool promises to offer all sorts of command line  
> tooling capabilities.
>
> Seems to me that ZF has really increased project momentum over the  
> past year. Their partnership with Adobe to simplify interactions  
> between Flex and ZF apps might be of some interest when discussing RIA  
> interfaces/features in Gx like drag and drop, etc.
>
> All of this is fine and well, but ZF 2.0 won't be released until well  
> into next year.
>
> http://phpimpact.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/zend-framework-controller-22-drop-in-responsiveness/
> http://www.phpjack.com/content/zendframe-works-future (see Matthew's  
> Clarification comment)
> http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/archives/2008/09/adobe_and_zend_announce_collab.html
>
> Thoughts?
>
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