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Revision as of 17:57, 11 November 2011
General
Criteria
| Criteria | Weight (1-5) | Symfony 2 | Yii |
| Ease of use, low learning curve | 5 | X | |
| Native support of Postgres/mySQL/MSSQL database systems | 5 | X | X |
| Handles some form of namespacing | 5 | X | X |
| Supports creation of an application installer which handles DB setup properly without using commandline or weird workarounds | 5 | X | X |
| Pluggable authentication system | 4 | X | X |
| Activity and maturity | 4 | X | X |
| DB Active Records handling similar to CodeIgniter | 3 | X | |
| Handles real 5.3 namespaces | 2 | X | X |
| XML-RPC server support or support for a similar RESTful API (not SOAP) | 2 | X | X |
| Native PHP views | 5 | X | X |
| Templating engine | 4 | X | X |
| Support for different template engines | 2 | X | X |
| CLI support | 3 | X | X |
| ORM support | 2 | X | X |
| Unit tests | X | X | X |
| Clean separation between Framework/Application Configuration and User Configuration (Administrative Configuration) | 5 | X | X |
| Clean separation between Framework Code and Application Code | 5 | X | X |
| Thoughtfull library folder layout for integration with LimesSurvey and 3rd Party Libraries (incl. Autoload) | 4 | X | X |
Must-haves
- GPL compatible license
- Support of Postgres/mySQL/MSSQL database systems
- MVC model
- Requires at least PHP 5.1
Non-criteria
- ACL (because LimeSurvey provides it's own CRUD ACL)