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I finally found the time, strength, and courage to fix the back-end of my site. Although at first it took me like 3 days to complete a full blown blog such as this one with no architecture or somesort. Now it runs on a framework and is following a design pattern - MVC which stands for model-view-controller.

I've always been thinking about how I could start fixing my site and I often thought of making my own framework but what difference does it make? Creating your own framework will just like be re-inventing the wheel which was not a good idea and the fact that I had less time on my end. After days of thinking and imagining, I finally came to the thought of using one of the frameworks available and I was shocked - like "that's it?!". Thinking of fixing then re-coding my site would take me a week or so but this time it only took me 2 days!

So far the results were good but I'm not sure if you would notice the changes done, I'm sure it runs smoother now and provides better user-feedback.

I want to hear comments about your viewpoint towards frameworks and why or why not use it?

(11) Comments

christian reyes

christian reyes said...

haha! thanks for the visit inomon! a friend told me to change the extension to *.exe too - just hilarious! rock on~!

Tuesday 6:20 am, August 25, 2009

inomon

inomon said...

wew.. this is neat.. i havent read a review of kohana, so far i've only dealt with symfony and yii.. btw, nice reconstruction. :) and oh,the SEO and the pretty-url/routing is one great standard for a web2.0 site. :) hmmm... you can change it to anything you want.. why not use 'c' ;D /blog/entry/backend-fixture.c :D 'OMG!! your using C! for a web page!' xD regards! and lets keep the web flourishing and moving forward! heil to us web developers! xD

Tuesday 6:14 am, August 25, 2009

christian reyes

christian reyes said...

@reggie right, just imagine how much code is reduced.

Monday 1:52 am, August 24, 2009

reggie

reggie said...

having frameworks is a good thing it makes things a lot easier., (^^,)

Monday 1:42 am, August 24, 2009

christian reyes

christian reyes said...

thanks for the visit! yeah haha, who'd think that an .xhtml extension exists!?

Sunday 7:41 pm, August 23, 2009

marcdwarf

marcdwarf said...

OMG.. all pages had an xhtml extension already? Is there such thing as xhtml extension in the web? hahaha.. anyways.. Kohana rocks and Code Igniter had some issues on it but it's still good. Nice Work done!!

Sunday 7:37 pm, August 23, 2009

christian reyes

christian reyes said...

haha good guessing! how'd you find out? i really thought i was successful in hiding the framework XD

Sunday 4:58 pm, August 23, 2009

solwyvern

solwyvern said...

Dang, really thought this thing was running on Code Igniter.... but it seems it's using Kohana! ><;

Sunday 10:17 am, August 23, 2009

christian reyes

christian reyes said...

performance wise, these frameworks have been tested. it seems they were made by people who are addicted to performance or them so-called performance-addicts. and i'd say that we need not worry about the imports of libraries from the back-end. just like you said, they are imported just when they are needed.

Sunday 1:55 am, August 23, 2009

no to frameworks

no to frameworks said...

except for javascript! yeah jquery and mootools rox! anyway if you plan to use a framework in php i would suggest code ignite as it has import-only-when-needed functions making it very lightweight you wouldnt want to waste your precious memory with unused functions right?

Sunday 1:51 am, August 23, 2009

christian reyes

christian reyes said...

whew finally done with that! now time to take a shower!

Saturday 10:48 pm, August 22, 2009


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