[support] Drupal as a PHP development framework?

[Daniel Carrera]

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.