[support] Drupal as a PHP development framework?

[Daniel Carrera]

Seth Freach wrote:
> Knowing nothing about your app or experience level with Drupal, I'm 
> going to assume 3 things:
>   - Your app is in a production environment and in use by your users
>   - You are the only person supporting this app
>   - Drupal is new to you.

Very good assumptions. The last one is only "partly true". I have 
managed Drupal sites for years, but I have never written a module or a 
theme. I don't know Drupal's internals.


> If those three things are all true, I would probably lean away from 
> porting to Drupal, it probably wouldn't make good business sense.  You 
> may find yourself spending significant amounts of time just learning 
> Drupal before you even begin to think about your app in a Drupal 
> environment.
> 
> On the other hand, if you are looking to build more apps going forward 
> and want to learn a robust framework to build those on, the time spent 
> now will be a valuable investment, especially, if this particular app is 
> one that has a small user base and will not significantly suffer for 
> being a learning environment (aka: guinea pig)

Thanks. Again, that's very useful. I have a couple hundred users and 
they are paying customers, so I can't experiment on them very much. I'll 
look for generic PHP framework.

Thanks for the help.

Cheers,
Daniel.