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[Nate Abele]

Sean, don't look at that graphic.  It is horribly outdated, and the  
author of the corresponding article barely did a shred of research  
before publishing it.  The article and the graphic have been updated  
a few times to correct some of the initial mistakes, but you can read  
the comments here http://www.phpit.net/article/ten-different-php- 
frameworks/ to see how many times the author had to be corrected.

As far as actually choosing a framework, others can provide you with  
information, but the decision should be based on your needs.  On one  
end of the spectrum, you have the Andromeda framework, which, as Ken  
says, is more of an "un-framework", and it's great for all kinds of  
heavy-hitting business applications.  On the other end, you have a  
framework like CodeIgniter, which is easy to learn and get up and  
running with quickly.  It doesn't do everything for you, but it also  
has probably the shortest learning curve of any major PHP framework.

Between those two is (my framework : ) CakePHP.  Cake is well-suited  
to doing all kinds of web applications.  It provides structure to  
organize your code, and will handle a lot of things automatically,  
while still allowing you to take control where you want to.   
Hopefully that's helpful.  Granted I'm a little biased : )

-Nate

> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:27:02 +0200
> From: Onur <onur.yerlikaya at linux.org.tr>
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] php framework
> To: NYPHP Talk <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
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> Sean wrote:
>> which php framework would you recommend?
>>
> Hi,
>
> You can look this image for choosing your framework
> http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/3619/frameworkkarsilastirma7dm.png
>
> Best Regards,
> Onur Yerlikaya
> mailto:onur.yerlikaya at linux.org.tr