We are currently looking joining an open source PHP farmework project instead of continuing to work on our own PHP MVC code. Likely candidates are Yii and Solar, because they appeal to our own coding style, have tackled issues that we feel need tackling.
I realize there are plenty of PHP frameowrk related questions on SO already. However, I’m having a really hard time finding people that actually use one of these (esp. Solar) in a real world environment.
So, my question: did anyone work a real life project with one of these? How did it work out for you? What were the major issues?
I’m not looking for benchmarks or excitement about the theories behind each of these. It’s clear that their creators of both frameworks did a tremendous job. What I want to know is:
- did you use it?
- did you like it?
- pro’s and cons based on real world use?
I use Solar daily for internal applications at work and personal projects at home. It is a top-notch, solid framework that I can highly recommend to anyone. It is in beta3, but stable should be coming along in the next couple of months.
A common criticism is the lack of documentation. I am happy to say that that is changing rapidly. New documentation is being written daily. In fact, two new chapters are already up.
A great way to get involved in Solar, or to get questions answered is to visit the IRC channel #solar-talk on freenode, or join the Solar Talk mailing list.
Visit the Solar website for all the info.