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In 'transportation' terms, my PHP framework is a 'bicycle' because I can take it apart and fix it myself.
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I've heard that frameworks can make my life easier, but I'm not sure how. &nbsp;I'm new to PHP but know enough to complete most common tasks. &nbsp;Any recommendations on which framework is pretty user friendly for a beginner? &nbsp;And what benefits are there in using a framework? Thanks.
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I've heard that frameworks can make my life easier, but I'm not sure how.  I'm new to PHP but know enough to complete most common tasks.  Any recommendations on which framework is pretty user friendly for a beginner?  And what benefits are there in using a framework? Thanks.

This article (http://www.netmagazine.com/features/choose-right-php-framework) may help you...

In &amp;#39;transportation&amp;#39; terms, my PHP framework is a &amp;#39;bicycle&amp;#39; because I can take it apart and fix it myself.

In terms of PHP what exactly is a framework and what&amp;#39;s it provide?

I&amp;#39;ve heard that frameworks can make my life easier, but I&amp;#39;m not sure how.  I&amp;#39;m new to PHP but know enough to complete most common tasks.  Any recommendations on which framework is pretty user friendly for a beginner?  And what benefits are there in using a framework? Thanks.

In terms of PHP what exactly is a framework and what's it provide?

PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language especially suited for web development, powering tens of millions of sites from Facebook to personal WordPress blogs. PHP is often paired with the MySQL relational database, but includes support for most other mainstream databases. By utilizing different Server APIs, PHP can work on many different web servers as a server-side scripting language.

Web development includes all aspects of presenting content on intranets and the Internet, including delivery development, protocols, languages and standards, server software, browser clients, databases and multimedia generation.

Web Development

A scripting language is a programming language that supports scripts, programs written for a special run-time environment that automate the execution of tasks that could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator. Scripting languages are often interpreted (rather than compiled). Primitives are usually the elementary tasks or API calls, and the language allows them to be combined into more complex programs. Environments that can be automated through scripting include software applications, web pages within a web browser, the shells of operating systems (OS), embedded systems, as well as numerous games. A scripting language can be viewed as a domain-specific language for a particular environment; in the case of scripting an application, this is also known as an extension language.