Without knowing what the PHP application does makes it difficult to answer.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>Victor Kane<br><a href="http://awebfactory.com.ar">http://awebfactory.com.ar</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Daniel Carrera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel.carrera@zmsl.com">daniel.carrera@zmsl.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br>
Can you use Drupal core as a PHP development framework? Suppose you want<br>
to create a custom in-house web application which is not necessarily<br>
going to be a Drupal module. What would you use?<br>
<br>
<br>
I am the maintainer of a custom PHP application. It's quite poorly<br>
written and I'm stuck maintaining it. I have been thinking that I'd like<br>
to rewrite it from scratch. I don't *need* any third party software to<br>
rewrite it, but it occurred to me that the final product might be better<br>
if I used a good PHP development framework. So I started googling for<br>
PHP application frameworks and I hit a Wikipedia page saying that some<br>
people use Drupal as a development framework. So I thought I'd ask about<br>
that here. Any thoughts?<br>
<br>
<br>
I don't have a solid idea of what I'm looking for. I'm just looking to<br>
see what's available.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Daniel.<br>
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