On Frameworks: The Glue VS The Stack

During my daily routine to read news about what is happening in the world of PHP. I found an interesting read regarding about frameworks. I just like to share it you guys because anytime soon we will be dealing with frameworks because some of us at PHPUGPH.COM are trying to collaborate on doing open source projects to help develop each other to become better developers. Okay now for the glue and the stack explanation.

A glue framework provides you with a bunch of components that you can use together, but don’t necessarily have to. Zend Framework is a PHP glue framework, as it comes with all these cool components that you can pick and choose depending on what you need done. You’re not forced to use them, and this appeals to certain programmers who have fallen in love with their own quirky set of libraries and methodologies.

A full stack framework gives you everything you need to create your web app, and pretty much forces you to use it. CakePHP is a full-stack framework. It has a bunch of conventions, and you must follow them or die. Okay, maybe you won’t die but your application will never work properly if you don’t understand the conventions.

Overall this will help us on what kind of framework is applicable to certain projects.

Well that’s it for my first post here. \m/(^o^)
You can read the whole article here.

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