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What your opinion about the use of PHP frameworks like Cake PHP, Yii, Symfony, etc?

• nolok 14y ago
  Using PHP for a 30+M registered users website, I'm using a modified Code Igniter for the base framework, and specific Zend Framework's modules on some functionality where they provide good libraries. As the parent said, ultimately cpu cycle on your web servers don't matter much, you will be limited by IO everywhere. Knowing how to properly use redis' data types and handle multi-level cache invalidation will be a much more valuable asset than using a framework you might not enjoy the most / be the most fluent with just because it's a wee bit faster. Even in terms of actual php's calculation, your main strong point is figuring out what you can remove from the page processing and put in a daemon instead. "If the user wants to do action A, what is the minimal amount of things I can do to make him believe that it has been done", do that in your controllers, and put all the actual hard work in an event processing queue that doesn't have an user waiting for it to answer back.