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No points for this, please, but I completely agree with mankowitz. &nbsp;Not only is the learning curve fairly steep for each framework, but the costs of modifying a deployed application are huge compared to the costs of changes at the early stage of development. &nbsp;In other words, changing frameworks is worse than starting over.<br />
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Make a brief &quot;survey site&quot; from each of a few frameworks - perhaps a couple of forms and a couple of views, with a simple data base. &nbsp;Pick the one you like, and never look back. &nbsp;Among my smartest and most professional colleagues <a href="http://laravel.com/" rel="ugc">Laravel</a> is getting a lot of love these days.
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No points for this, please, but I completely agree with mankowitz.  Not only is the learning curve fairly steep for each framework, but the costs of modifying a deployed application are huge compared to the costs of changes at the early stage of development.  In other words, changing frameworks is worse than starting over.

Make a brief "survey site" from each of a few frameworks - perhaps a couple of forms and a couple of views, with a simple data base.  Pick the one you like, and never look back.  Among my smartest and most professional colleagues Laravel [http://laravel.com/] is getting a lot of love these days.

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Thank you very much both of you guys
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We pretend to start developing some applications in codeigniter but reading a little bit more about symfony or zend frameworks, we've noticed that those are better for robust applications, so I wonder how easy would be to migrate our application from one framework to another? (perhaps from codeigniter to symfony)<br />
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We don't have too much experience with frameworks so excuse me if I am asking about something absurd.
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HI

We pretend to start developing some applications in codeigniter but reading a little bit more about symfony or zend frameworks, we've noticed that those are better for robust applications, so I wonder how easy would be to migrate our application from one framework to another? (perhaps from codeigniter to symfony)

We don't have too much experience with frameworks so excuse me if I am asking about something absurd.

how easy would be change an application developed in a framework to another?

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