Hi all, I was just made aware of this: <http://www.codeigniter.com> I wonder where the inspiration comes from? Lots of very similar concepts there ;) I''ve only watched the intro movie so far, but very interesting. jt
Interesting. Rails is still at least 25% better. I recall DHH''s blog only taking 15 minutes. I will consent that they have us beat with the great porno intro music. I was already sporting a woody--even before I saw the code. :) Michael
On 13 Apr 2006, at 17:34, John Tsombakos wrote:> Hi all, > > I was just made aware of this: > > <http://www.codeigniter.com> > > I wonder where the inspiration comes from? Lots of very similar > concepts there ;) > > I''ve only watched the intro movie so far, but very interesting.Yeah, well, your local supermarket probably also has its own great brand of coke, if you know what I mean ;-) But hey, at least he''s also using TextMate (and Camino, instead of Safari for those wondering) on a Mac, great to see PHP programmers at least getting some notion of what''s good. Next thing you know they''ll be using Rails instead of trying to perform some plastic surgery on an ugly language to make it beautiful :-) Best regards Peter De Berdt
Hey, that''s amazing! It''s *exactly* like Rails, without the elegance. In Rails you write code. In CodeIgniter, you write code to tell CodeIgniter what type of code you''re about to write. :-) But, I must admit, compared to most of the PHP I''ve seen "in the wild", it''s a big improvement. -- -- Tom Mornini On Apr 13, 2006, at 8:34 AM, John Tsombakos wrote:> Hi all, > > I was just made aware of this: > > <http://www.codeigniter.com> > > I wonder where the inspiration comes from? Lots of very similar > concepts there ;) > > I''ve only watched the intro movie so far, but very interesting. > > jt > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
On 4/13/06, Tom Mornini <tmornini@infomania.com> wrote:> Hey, that''s amazing! > > It''s *exactly* like Rails, without the elegance.That''s exactly what I was thinking! Michael Trier <mtrier@gmail.com> wrote> I will consent that they have us beat with >the great porno intro music. I was already sporting a woody--even >before I saw the code. :)Bow-chicka-bow-wow :)
Why ?! I already knew about cakephp and phpontrax. Now it seems there is a third framework joining the mess. It honestly is beyond me why those three largely similar frameworks aren''t working together. Cake has the best documentation. phpontrax seems to be a bit cleaner (but NO doc) and codeignite.. well.. what i make of it is that it is too verbose compared wtih its php based competitors, but it has nice addons. I don''t feel any hatred towards php. I like rails and ruby. But often i need to use php, if for nothing else than "when truck hits progammer".. Yes.. too few people know ruby.. I would like to see a mature "rails inspired framework" for php ;) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Michael Trier wrote:> Interesting. Rails is still at least 25% better.That depends on your point of view. If the parameters you have to work with are a bottom-dollar PHP-only host and a cheap client, then codeigniter is approximately <Infinity>% better, because Rails *doesn''t fit*. Codeigniter trades one of Rails'' weaknesses (hosting ease and ubiquity) against linguistic elegance and flexibility. That''s a fair trade-off, in my book, given that they''ve borrowed a load of ideas from Rails that are *objectively* good. At least, that''s the impression I got after a brief perusal a little while ago. I''ll definitely be looking into it if I ever have to use PHP again. -- Alex
Alex, I know you''re trying to make a point, and it''s a valid one. My comments were all tongue in cheek and indulging in levity. Michael
Michael Trier wrote:> I know you''re trying to make a point, and it''s a valid one. My > comments were all tongue in cheek and indulging in levity.Sorry... My sense of humour is in storage :-) -- Alex
Stop programming in PHP, and that''s change. :)
I watched the 20 minute movie. Nothing about it seemed easy. Maybe easier than starting a PHP app from scratch but still not elegant. Above anything else this shows that you can''t have rails without the power of Ruby, no matter how hard you try in another language. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.