Zend’s PHP 5 Coding Contest – PRADO framework

March 25th, 2006 by Martin

PRADO is a component-based and event-driven Web programming framework for PHP 5. PRADO reconceptualizes Web application development in terms of components, events and properties instead of procedures, URLs and query parameters.
This is not meant as introduction to PRADO. I only have a few things I want to tell about. I know that it is a few months later, but… First of all I have to say, that there is no doubt about quality of this project both from desing and implementation point of view. The first thing that surprised me was the fact, that PRADO is so simillar to ASP.NET. Of cource if it will be only concept or design, but there are simillar names of methods e.g. javascript __doPostBack(), way the namespaces are named and many more… And this is only simple example, there are more similarities to .NET framework. I have to say, that in my current project (WM framework) I took OOP design of PRADO as an pattern for building my own PHP5 classes (of course that there was more pattersn like Java or C#). One reason is that there is no materials about practical level of OOP design in PHP5, I do not have enough experiences (and time to gain them) and the final – I belive that PRADO is a good example (because it wins ZEND contest)… And who could know more about PHP than core developers ;)

One Response to “Zend’s PHP 5 Coding Contest – PRADO framework”

  1. cerw Says:

    thanks for this post, i have just realised few days ago, that my programming skills are below zero, and my current project make me want vomit, so i need to read more books and get inspired by project like PRADO , WM is too hc :_) BTW i need private lessons too :_)

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