In my quest to find something better than the crappy way I have been developing web pages, I've been exploring enterprise development patterns and the various implementations and frameworks that are available, particularly for java. Currently I'm most impressed with Tapestry[1] as a templating (view) and application flow (control) framework. It's simple and very powerful, but still requires a large amount of busy work to make an app, although good tools like Eclipse[2] and Spindle[3] help.
Recently, I've also been looking at two PHP frameworks that implement enterprise patterns. They are WACT[4] (Web Application Component Toolkit) and PHPTAL[5]. Both of which are cool pieces of software. I believe that should I stick to PHP, I would definitely start using one of these frameworks for everything, as they provide so much more flexibility and maintainability than PHP mess of logic and presentation that I've created so far. My question is has anyone on this list had experience with these templating frameworks in PHP? Can you give pros and cons regarding the use of these frameworks, and using them as opposed to java? Clearly there still is no security framework with either php choice. That would probably have to be implemented within PHP itself. Michael [1] http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry/ [2] http://www.eclipse.org [3] http://spindle.sourceforge.net/ [4] http://wact.sourceforge.net/ [5] http://phptal.sourceforge.net/ -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
