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The world of the internet has radically changed in the last 10 years, in the early internet days of 1999 sites were built and maintained using basic HTML, without CMS. Now the internet has matured significantly and most developers are aware of the M V C (module - view - controller) construct. The following are some of those available in the PHP open source world:

  • Zend has been around since around 2005, it has much to commend it with partners in all camps (microsoft and google). It is however very flexable and is subject to varied design and development. knowing zend merely entails knowing the library of classes on which zend is based. more
  • Symfony was released roughly around 2005, it differs slighltly from other mvcs in that it enable developers not to need to repeat standard coding and can initially provide fast results more.
  • CakePHP another MVC more..
  • CodeIgniter another MVC more..
Now the trouble originally was that when writing a web site you would have to decide on what language to use. Now the questions multiply - which language and which MVC do you use?
 
This may seem simple but the real question is which MVC is here to stay and which will be yesterdays news?
 
Tomorrows MVCs will its clear need to follow Symfony's example - ie replace the need to begin tasks with a script that when its run builts the basic constructs.
The tools are slowly driving to a point where we can build a complex site quickly and easilly. All sites require simple specific database constructs and tools (eg CMS, Blogs, forums and so on) so the most obvious solution is to build this into the libraries aswell and thus developers will only be tweaking the end result.