What do you think about this PHP Framework?

[Christophe]

RedCat (ex-Surikat)

http://redcatphp.com/

Now that I have found ProcessWire, I won't change as far as PHP/MySQL technology is concerned.

But, I'm just curious about your opinions, as I happen to know a little the creator/main developper and at least one other developper.

It didn't exist a few years ago, and, as far as I know, it was rewritten several times, from scratch if I'm not mistaken, as the creator wasn't satisfied and/or wanted to improve it/its performance.

Apparently, it can work with several database types.

Reading the homepage, it could work with ProcessWire, for example:

"components are made to work as stand-alone in any other environment." and "Integration of other components and frameworks is very easy,".

NB: by the way, who knows http://www.php-fig.org/?

[Christophe]

Again, what's the secret (of ProcessWire's Forums)?

I've created this topic less than 30 minutes ago, and Google mentions "14 hours ago".

[Surikat]

Hello Christophe,

I know this topic is old but it's never too late to enlight it,

RedCatPHP is not a CMS (like processwire) but a Framework, a framework is the core of CMS or other application, it's made for developers, who like write code to create originals and very specifics features, a CMS is made for webmaster, who like to focus on content and configuration of allready existing features.

You can't compare them, doing this, it's like comparing cooking tools (a framework) and a cake (cms).

The majority of PHP developers (and we are 5 millions in the world) know the standards published by the PHP Framework Interoperability Group, and even the coders who doesn't know the PHP FIG group, use theses standards, mainly the PSR1 and PSR4 (you can see it in almost all PHP projects on github).

RedCat was not rebuild from sratch but reassembled to fit my constant need to improve scalability. The focus was made to bring fully decoupled new features that didn't exist in any other framework, like a Datamapper-ORM to adapt databases on the fly, or a XHTML template Engine for process HTML as object and work on DOM using CSS3 selector (like you can do with jquery but server-side at compile time) allowing you to structure in extended template instead of weighing layout, and many others great features ( see RedCat official website for more details ).

 

But the most important: RedCat was made with love, madness, patience and enthusiasm by a php developer for php developers !

[adrian]

@Surikat - perhaps you are just trying to enlighten us all about RedCat and we appreciate that, but it does smell a little like advertising.

32 minutes ago, Surikat said:

RedCatPHP is not a CMS (like processwire) but a Framework, a framework is the core of CMS or other application

You should know that ProcessWire is actually a framework first and the optional CMS component is actually built on top of this framework. I know this is not obvious from reading some of the blurbs on the website, but this is one of the main reasons why ProcessWire is so great because you have all the tools from the framework available for your use on the frontend, or to build your own CMS on top of it if you wish. 

[kongondo]

56 minutes ago, Surikat said:

You can't compare them, doing this, it's like comparing cooking tools (a framework) and a cake (cms).

...in addition to the comments above, I am not sure anyone attempted to compare RC to ProcessWire. At least, I don't see this in the OP.

[Surikat]

@adrian you're right, I found that the first message of this topic was a little opprobrious, so I thought I had to react by self promotion, I hope this is not perceived as spamming. I didn't know that Processwire was also a framework, you're right it's not obvious by reading the presentation, and I'm accustomed to not decoupled CMS.

@kongondo I think that is implied by the first sentence in the first message.