Still here
Hello world.
I have not posted here for some time, so I’ve decided to do a late night Saturday post.
A fair bit has been happening for me in the web developer world. I recently started using a framework for the first time. I had been copying around a core set of classes for most sites, and had realised I had essentially built my own sort of framework. Ater realising this, I went and hunted for a suitable mature framework to use. After downloading Zend, CodeIgniter, Symfony and Kohana. I had a quick flip through the code base, and readin a lot of online material on them, and decided to use Kohana.
I originally decided to go with CodeIgniter, but after digging a little deeper, I discovered that Kohana was a fork of CI, implementing PHP5’s improved support for objects, and being community driven. This should mean that development shouldn’t feel as stagnant as what I’ve been heard about CI.
In also learning Kohana, I had to learn about the MVC pattern and how to implement it with Kohana. I discovered it was relatively simple, and has so far implemented it with my last 2 projects. These have been an online plants database and an interactive style brochure site for a Fiji resort.
I also discovered that my previous collection of classes followed a loose set of MVC principles… I had a router controller, one massive controller to handle all logic, a set of classes that acted as models, and views for each ’section’ of the site.
All in all, I definitely recommend learning a framework. It is good experience.