Comments on: Do all frameworks really suck? http://www.laurathomson.com/2007/07/do-all-frameworks-really-suck/ Laura Thomson's random thoughts and rants about tech and FOSS Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:36:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: chris http://www.laurathomson.com/2007/07/do-all-frameworks-really-suck/#comment-254 chris Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:47:48 +0000 http://www.laurathomson.com/?p=95#comment-254 I have to disagree with a lot of points in this post. For starters, i have integrated MVC on top of existing code successfully and without much difficulty. Since most MVC frameworks in PHP use mod_rewrite rules that include !-f before passing the request to the framework, existing .php files will work just fine. We use Fuse as our framework, and while any framework is going to increase the footprint of your code, it's a small price to pay for the fact that Fuse drops out development time by something in the area of 85% on most projects. Finally, I love the templating engine in Fuse and, to a lesser extent, CodeIgniter and Smarty. So, I can't agree that all templating systems do suck. I can't stand seeing "templates" that are really just inline spaghetti code called by a controller just my opinion - good post either way I have to disagree with a lot of points in this post. For starters, i have integrated MVC on top of existing code successfully and without much difficulty. Since most MVC frameworks in PHP use mod_rewrite rules that include !-f before passing the request to the framework, existing .php files will work just fine.

We use Fuse as our framework, and while any framework is going to increase the footprint of your code, it’s a small price to pay for the fact that Fuse drops out development time by something in the area of 85% on most projects.

Finally, I love the templating engine in Fuse and, to a lesser extent, CodeIgniter and Smarty. So, I can’t agree that all templating systems do suck. I can’t stand seeing “templates” that are really just inline spaghetti code called by a controller

just my opinion - good post either way

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