Php

gimli29

So i have spend quite a while practising and writing some programs ( web based ) in php and have made use of many of its functions.

I have a question , many uears ago when i first learnt html and css i coded raw for most of that period and then i discovered bootsrap , and my workflow forever got better due to the easy nature of bootstrap.

The same thing happened to me with JavaScript and then jquery.

My question now however is ( bearing in mind that i want to cover some of node.js in the future too )
I have laravel , laravel however seems incredibly powerful , overkill for most of what want to learn more about right now. What is the bootstrap equivalent ( the framework wise ) for php , is it indeed laravel?

cluelessPHP

Laravel is one of the most popular but WordPress popular too

dalecosp

cluelessPHP;11065091 wrote:
Laravel is one of the most popular but WordPress popular too

But one of those is an MVC framework and the other is "Blogging Software", correct?

Other PHP frameworks might include CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Symfony, Twig, Yii, ZF/Zend Framework, etc.

NogDog

Yeah, generally speaking, I think of things like Wordpress, Joomla, or Drupal as content management systems (CMS) which could, in theory, be built on top of a web framework such as Laravel (IMHO the best PHP framework out there right now for a number of reasons).

Compared to JQuery, the PHP MVC frameworks probably have more "stuff" (or more types of "stuff"), as they are generally solving for a bigger problem space. Of course, for some comparatively simple web applications, you might only need to solve for a narrow sub-set of that space, in which case a MVC framework might be overkill -- but in other cases it's just the beginning.

cluelessPHP

You could learn to make plugins too I'd imagine

gimli29

Hello all thanks for your responses , i agree with the little added knowledge that i have now as to when i asked this question , laravel is a great MVC framework . As i dig deeper into what MVC does OOP and a few other things that really are of interest to me as they are what i intent to use , laravel really seems like the proper choice.