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Hi Rick,

> That's what I was after when I bought up the question of php
>  frameworks some time ago - ideally I could just think about a database
>  schema and the code would just start to appear. However the more I get
>  into it, the more I have found that the more you ask of a framework,
>  the more it asks of you, and hence why I have been pleasantly
>  surprised by codeigniter as something that isn't as prescriptive and
>  intrusive as other things i've tried, at the cost of not being as
>  fully featured as some of the larger frameworks - i've found it very
>  useful for bolting on some extra functionality to a legacy php site
>  that uses no framework.
>
>  I think the key of any framework is that you need to get to know it
>  properley before it makes you more productive than you would be
>  without it - i'm not at that stage with anything yet as my curious
>  nature means i'll need to do a project with each of them before I can
>  fix on a favorite (then end up supporting them to the end of time lol)

here's a basic comparison between the two to illustrate lines of code
between the 2 http://bin.cakephp.org/view/929254989

Now, if you add in associations, cake wins hands down
http://bin.cakephp.org/view/42078969

This situation gets worse [for CI] when you bring in data models with
tables many jumps apart, or with tables that link to lots of tables,
or compound associations.

jon


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