[support] Drupal as a PHP development framework?

[Chris Johnson]

You can use Drupal as such a framework, but it probably won't make
sense unless you either (1) already know Drupal and hence will save
time by using it, versus learning a new framework, or (2) intend to
use Drupal for something else anyway, in which case learning Drupal
only instead of Drupal plus another framework again saves you time.

As Victor Kane points out, it also depends on what you want to do.  If
it is similar enough to what Drupal and its contributed modules can
already do, it might be more efficient to use Drupal rather than a
more generic framework.

Otherwise, there are a number of other good frameworks out there you
could learn and use, and those frameworks might be more generalized
over the entire problem space of "PHP application building".

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..chris

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:51 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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