[support] Drupal as a PHP development framework?

[William Smith]

I tend to think of Drupal as (at least) two things: 1) A web/PHP
platform/framework and 2) A CMS constructed using that framework


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Can you use Drupal core as a PHP development framework? Suppose you want
> to create a custom in-house web application which is not necessarily
> going to be a Drupal module. What would you use?
>
>
> I am the maintainer of a custom PHP application. It's quite poorly
> written and I'm stuck maintaining it. I have been thinking that I'd like
> to rewrite it from scratch. I don't *need* any third party software to
> rewrite it, but it occurred to me that the final product might be better
> if I used a good PHP development framework. So I started googling for
> PHP application frameworks and I hit a Wikipedia page saying that some
> people use Drupal as a development framework. So I thought I'd ask about
> that here. Any thoughts?
>
>
> I don't have a solid idea of what I'm looking for. I'm just looking to
> see what's available.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
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