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PHP Object-Oriented PHP Basics Why Object-Oriented Programming? Why Use Object-Oriented Programming?

Posted by jlampstack
jlampstack
23,932 Points

Zend, Symphony, Laravel....

What do these frameworks do? I'm not familiar with them.

Would this be something similar as using Wordpress?

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

Only familiar with Laravel a little, but it has route mapping, templating, middleware, a technology to manipulate tables as objects etc. I think you build things from scratch where wordpress is a complete product where you graft in new functionality through hooks and plugins. (i'm going from memory & it's been a couple years. At the time wordpress had an architecture that seemed mostly conceptually pre OO apart from widgets. )

Treehouse has course on wordpress and a course on laravel. The laravel course is I think version 4, which is a couple years old. (now in hushed tones: I think Lynda has a short course called 'MVC Frameworks for Building PHP Web Applications' that 'introduces' a couple of the technologies you asked about. I haven't taken it so can't vouch for quality. It's very short, so I can't imagine they cover much.)

jlampstack
jlampstack
23,932 Points

Thanks Simon Coates !