Nick

Does anyone here use

- codeigniter
- phpcake
- smarty

or any other PHP templating/mvc systems for their sites?

CI just seems a bit heavyweight for smaller sites, interested to hear anyone's thoughts on platforms

Skinner

None of them are truely RADs in the real sense of Visual C/VB/Etc, they are more frameworks.

Of CI/Cake, cake is the better choice, altho its quite a learning curve is prob the better of them for anything heavy.

Smarty is def the most viable and its a very lightlight option, I have used smarty a fair bit when I need to go oo, its pretty simple and plenty of books on it

Generally I write everything myself so I can keep my foot print small

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Nick

Just seriously getting a case of re-inventing the wheel on an almost daily basis it's not good.

Do you run on multiple hosts etc? I'm finding it a lil' hardcore to keep multiple installations synchronised.

Skinner

All my Smarty coded sites are on the same install are on the same server. Used to piss me off with PHP4/5 :P

Well not sure about re-inventing daily as I write most my code in modules and frameworks anyway, so I can just drag and drop modules, then include it into the html files. I can then just replace the modules as and when without too much disturbance.

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Nick

Guess I meant that I'm looking more for a close-to-as-poss-zero-config way of synchronising/matching installations across multiple hosts. I've got about 5/6 CI installs dotted around on seperate hosts, and keeping them all up to date just becomes a bit of a mare sometimes.

I hear you on the framework/modules thing - I'm just struggling on multiple servers/hosts and setting up new versions can take a while

Skinner

I totally get you on that, there is no simple option really, least not that I have found.

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Nick

Cheers skinner

Back to the single host it is then

If I find something will let you know

Skinner

I have a server in Blue Square (dedi) that I keep most my heavy stuff on, if you have the budget its worth going there, as one dedi server will hold 100s of sites without a problem.

I have 217 sites on my dedi server and still resources look like they will take another 500 without problems. One of my shared host servers has 80+ of mine, and dog knows how many of others and no problems there.

So a dedicated server maybe a good option

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Nick

Cool - I'm using Krystal.co.uk at the moment (but only for around 20 domains) and I've not had any probs with them whatsoever (can't see myself going anywhere else for a while)

If the software all sits on a single host and you've got open_basedir setup - that's what I'd be after - so you can reuse the same core files on every installation (just skin front end / select modules etc). Been after setting it up so it syncs on multiple IPs/hosts with the original source.

Thx for sharing your setup - always good to see what others are up to

Skinner

I tried doing the base thing, using addon domains.

So had home/maindom/addon.co.uk and home/maindom/addons.co.uk and then used the same corefiles which lived on home/maindom/ but had sooo many issues.

It works great with mysql, everythings in the 1 place, but the files as a joke.

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