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I want to start by saying that I searched a lot for this exact question, but none of them satisfied my needs.
I program Php, MySQL, HTML, CSS and Javascript the 'old way', using just a text editor and building every website from scratch. I built websites from the most simple to an-almost e-commerce just by coding every piece of the application. The most advance thing I did was using some simple classes, like a database wrapper, singleton, and for the rest I always used functions.
Now, recently I signed up for a website where there are courses ( I won't say its name because I don't know if I'm allowed ) and I followed one about Laravel 3 ( I know currently its version is 4.x ), and I must admit I fell in love with it. I like it very much and I want to start using it but I'm afraid that doing so will 'dumb' me.
What I mean is that Laravel has a lot of helper functions, Eloquent structure and so on, so by using it I won't learn any more the pure Php because for everything you need there is already a built helper function.
To make a very simple example, if you want to join some tables you use Eloquent and within literally 3 second you accomplish this. If you want to log a user in, again you have an Auth class that does everything for you, even setting sessions.
This is my biggest fear, that I won't learn anything anymore because all you need is already provided, you don't have to think that much anymore.
On the other side, Laravel helps you a lot and it eases your work very much. As much as I want to start digging into it more I can't help but fear its downsides.
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The first and best advantage of using the Laravel framework is that it follows - Model, View, and Controller-based architectural pattern and it has an expressive beautiful syntax which makes it object-oriented. Laravel provides an out-of-the-box configuration for the Authentication and Authorization system.
Laravel documentation and "Quick start" is more of an "API reference" rather than a documentation. For beginners it's always way easier to get hands dirty with a simple toy app (todos, tasks, etc). Laravel's documentation shows what framework offers without a simple example how you can use it in your project.
Laravel architecture is MVC-based, and this is something that makes Laravel the best PHP framework for website development. MVC architecture comes up with built-in functionalities that developers can use at their best while building your web app.
Laravel is a free and open-source PHP web framework, created by Taylor Otwell and intended for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern and based on Symfony.
Look at all the sites you built. Identify redundant elements. Extract them into classes and functions and build your own framework. This will allow you to build sites faster and build a library. Once you do that, there's no dumbing down. You can choose to use another or not... but you'll have yours too.
That's what I did. I have my own framework. And it ain't bad!
There are two types of developers:
Choose which model fits your needs best.
There's another catch. Some frameworks might have too much fat for your needs. Building more specialized solutions might actually yield way better performance than a one-size-fits-all framework. That's another perspective.
Bafta mai departe :)
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