wide thoughts

For some reason php|architect’s June issue failed to list Symfony among 6 frameworks that are supposedly worth mentioning. I’m not going to speculate on why, but I will say that it’s wrong from at least one perspective.

If a serious magazine tries to present itself as a valuable source of PHP information, and half of the issue is dedicated to frameworks, and they put a big caption saying “PHP HAS BEEN FRAMED – A rundown of popular frameworks” on the front cover, but then at least two of the frameworks listed are far from maturity (and userbase, and documentation) of the big players, and you fail to list at least one of the most popular frameworks, then it’s a fail. Whether it be because they couldn’t find anybody that would write an article, or they didn’t try hard enough to find anybody, or they just didn’t think about it, it’s still a fail. They should’ve. And the same could be said for a few other PHP frameworks.

I wonder what were the criteria for the framework selection. Popularity couldn’t be the only one, because that would mean at least three frameworks replaced by others.

Even though, it’s an interesting issue, framework articles included.