Akelos is some new hotness for PHP
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008Ok, so I don’t usually blog about PHP….well in this blog you’ll see zero previous posts about PHP….but I’ve been keeping tabs on a new PHP MVC framework called Akelos. What is intriguing to me about Akelos is it’s a direct port of the Rails framework for PHP.
Now, for an avid Rails developer having to code a project in PHP this is the best solution. We have to admit, at times we’re not “allowed” to code a project in Rails. Whether it be a legacy PHP system or a rigid decision by a new client, some times we’re in a situation where we HAVE to code in PHP. Enter Akelos.
So the first thing that caught my attention as a “wow” factor of Akelos over CakePHP, Symfony or one of the other PHP MVC frameworks(besides being a port of Rails) was the use of sintags. This is an especially nice feature for Rails developers using Akelos.
Sintags allows you to use Ruby syntax in a number of Akelos views including such calls as “render :partial => “your partial name”. This is a fantastic bridge between the two frameworks for someone in my situation.
Hop on Akelos.org and checkout some of the features and Rails similarities for yourself.
I’ll post some code comparisons of sintags in a future post.