PHP, meet elegance. Laravel 3 has arrived.

by mikelbring • 14 years ago

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samarudge2• 14 years ago

People seem to spend a lot of time trying to get PHP to be more like Rails, Django, Node/Express, Play and similar, people seem to think it's OK for the entire application to need to be re-initialized on every request (LazyLoading classes) instead of just running the setup once and then handling requests. PHP has it's advantages but why re-invent the wheel using marshmallows?

noolan• 14 years ago

Apparently you have never tried wagon wheels.

They are biscuits topped with marshmallow and covered in a chocolate flavoured coating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_Wheels

samarudge2• 14 years ago

I'd completely forgotten about those, you've successfully invalidated my metaphor. My A-Level electronics teacher used to get us wagon wheels every time he forgot to review our prep (basically every week)

hyuuu• 14 years ago

I have used this framework, I have to say, elegant is the correct way to describe it. It is very simple, intuitive and very performant (I think it is faster than CodeIgniter for a helloworld no db call benchmark).

Several limiting factors are there however, the migrations functionality is a bit weak, it supports many databases so you can't really go specifics (ex: changing database engine, it's INNODB by default) The orm is very straightforward, it works but it's slightly too simplistic, I found my self hand code a couple of times.

All in all: A++++ great framework!! will use again!!

PHP, meet elegance. Laravel 3 has arrived.

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