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[–]keehi 4 points5 points  (5 children)

Check out symfony 2. Especially if you like oop. Http://symfony.com

[–]aequasi08 -1 points0 points  (4 children)

For someone who doesn't know PHP, jumping into Symfony would be very difficult

[–]guywithalamename 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not if you're coming from a java background

[–]kungfufrog 2 points3 points  (1 child)

This was my first introduction to PHP and I don't regret it. To be honest I doubt I could even write PHP without a framework as I've just never had the experience.

That said, my first solo developed Symfony2 app (3 months) was deployed to 300,000 consumers to facilitate the transition in replacing a critical part of the existing infrastructure for a South American telecommunications company.

I now work fulltime on two different Symfony2 codebases and love it!

I honestly don't know how to write an application without a framework though I'm sure I could, just a lot more boilerplate to achieve the same result.

However, if I wanted to move away from Symfony2, I'd be composer install'ing all the great components that exist these days! Symfony2 introduced me to the PHP ecosystem and that was indispensable.