Hello MODxers,
I have not used MODx yet, I am here doing research on your project and have registered to try to add to this conversation about Code Igniter.
Quote from: OpenGeek at Jul 26, 2006, 08:13 PM
CodeIgniter is indeed the best of the PHP frameworks I’ve yet seen, at least of the ones that work in PHP 4, and it’s definitely high on what many would consider a competitor’s list for the next generation MODx. It’s possible that CodeIgniter add-on’s could be made for MODx, but I have not yet attempted to do so.
CI absolutely rocks. For the size and types of projects that I imagine PHP being used for most often CI offers an easy to learn and use methodology that if you are paying attention, helps you improve your code. It has not helped us develop faster however the projects we produce have more features, for example - sophisticated error logging, than they did before. We are also beginning to realise the niceties of good code reuse and other goodness that I would attribute to the ethos that CI brought with it.
My first question when hearing about MODx was, will it co-operate with CI?
Quote from: PaulGregory at Jul 27, 2006, 05:58 AM
....but it seems that a few people are using CI to create their own CMS, which just seems daft to me.
We are currently developing a CMS site, with a small amount of web application pages, using Joomla! The web application pages were so difficult to quickly implement. Things that would take 1 day in CI took longer than a week!! This leads people to asking would it not be easier to build a basic CMS in CI than make applications functionality work in Joomla!
In my mind this situation is crazy, never mind the utter lawlessness of the resultant code spewed out just to try and get the project to the client in time.
Quote from: OpenGeek at Jul 26, 2006, 08:13 PM
Think of using CodeIgniter, or Zend Framework, or or a set of custom PHP pages, and managing it all in MODx. And by applying a few key object-oriented patterns to the MODx code, it will make accessing and using the MODx API (including the template parser) inside other systems not only practical, but even efficient. For example, you could write a simple WordPress plugin that could render a menu generated by a MODx snippet.
For this reason I am quite excited about your project. It seems to be placing itself exactly where something is needed. I am a Director of a web development firm, and from a business perspective do not want to discard all of the CI libraries we have built and have the team take on yet another learning curve. The best case scenario for us would be to use something like MODx than develop our own CMS.
Watching, and reading, and hacking away with great interest.
Gags
