[support] Drupal as a PHP development framework?

[Victor Kane]

Without knowing what the PHP application does makes it difficult to answer.

But you might possibly be better off reverse-engineering a clear set of
features / user stories, and then the question would be, can I implement
these features using Drupal.

Drupal can serve as a CMS Application Framework, but since it is extensible,
and uses the module architecture to add more functionality to core, you will
have to write a module, which either uses Drupal functionality or else hooks
up Drupal to your via some form of integration. Both will require modules,
which simply means code running in the Drupal namespace.

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:51 PM, 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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