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PHP Template Engines »

Good template engines make it easy to work with designers, especially when the web application is quite big. I used Code Igniter for a big application before, without using its template parser class. I regret it now, because it is becoming increasingly painful to make changes to different parts of the application. But again, I did not use CI template engine, because I did not believe it to be as powerful as Smarty and others.

PHP has some great template engines and here is a list of some promising ones.

Rich Internet Applications »

If you have heard of RIA, you must have heard of

• Adobe Flex
• Open Laszlo
• Java Fx
• SilverLight

I wanted something simple and easy to adapt. I also did not want to change my LAMP hosting platform. That left me with Adobe Flex and Open Laszlo. There are so many comparisons out there between the two, but the most important of them all is that Open Laszlo requires a Servlet Container (like tomcat), whereas Flex does not need it. In the next few days (hopefully not weeks), I am going to play around with Flex and share my thoughts on it. Since I am not ready to spend money on Flex Builder, I will just use the SDK and see how it works. I am quite interested to see if I can still continue to use the Model and Controller of Code Igniter and just change the View to Flex!

PHP Framework – Code Igniter »

Lately, I started using Code Igniter (CI) and am quite impressed with it…so far. Cannot believe that I have been working on PHP without it. If you are working on PHP and if you are not using any framework, you should try it. I did not get a chance (yet) to work on Cake PHP to compare, but so far, I am impressed with CI. I am quite impressed with its MVC implementation and features like Pagination are quite handy.

If you are looking for a quick feature comparison of PHP frameworks, try this.