Whenever I get some time, I try to learn and experiment on different frameworks. I would like to stay away from pin pointing to the frameworks I have looked, so they don’t feel bad.
Long live components # Components are awesome!. You can plug your favourite components to any system. Thank you composer. One strong preference choosing a framework was
Aura has an awesome collection of libraries for different purpose.
It has components for authentication, cli, request and response, router, dependency injection container, dispatcher, html, view, event handlers, validation, extended pdo, query builders, sql schema, marshal, build and modify uri, http, internationalization, session, forms, includer.
If you are new to aura, there is probably something you may want to figure out yourself.
Some of the components have version 1 and version 2 releases. There is a question of which branch corresponds to which version.
The v1 packages are in develop branch and v2 over develop-2 branch.
Some of the recent discussions in the PHP world are
The Tribal Framework Mindset
Decoupling your packages from your framework
You don’t need a framework
Frameworks for everyone
Framework is not a bad idea # If you don’t use a framework, probably you will be using a bunch of independent libraries glued together or some code which help you to achieve your task.
It is a great feeling, and one of the happiest moment in my life when aura releases its stable framework.
Aura is one of my first framework, which helped me to learn the inner working of a framework, how to create a framework, rather than playing with full stack framework.
If you are interested to learn or contribute in the next version of Aura join the group.
Aura.Framework released Beta4. In this release Aura.Framework has extracted the Hello Word package and renamed it as Aura.Demo.
You can get the system as a whole from http://auraphp.github.com/system/downloads/
Read about the release from blog post and join discussion at auraphp group