[support] Drupal as a PHP development framework?

[Daniel Carrera]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your comments. Based on what you say, I think I lean toward a 
generic PHP framework. I do want some Drupal integration, but probably 
not enough to warrant writing the whole thing in Drupal (I just want to 
create Drupal users from within my app).

Is CodeIgniter a good framework? There are so many PHP frameworks, I 
don't know which ones are worth researching in detail.

Chris Johnson wrote:
> 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".