Level 75
I'd still use MVC, just write a small custom mvc framework.
An example: https://github.com/panique/mini3
But why, you have to write your own auth, csrf, etc. Just curious.
Dec 9, 2019
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Level 6
Going Vanilla PHP - Only real experience with Laravel
So a bit of context. My first job as a PHP developer already required me to use Laravel, so even though I already knew at least how to write PHP I never really got to work with just PHP.
Now I find myself in need to write some simpler stuff without having to install a hole framework to do it. So what would you say are the gotchas I should look in to when going to vanilla from a Laravel background ?
Level 54
Laravel doesn't add a whole lot of overhead.. I guess it's not super necessary if you're building a small one-off script with no useful output to manipulate a file or something, but it provides such a nice environment within which to build apps of basically every sort, I don't know why you'd really bother not using it, honestly.
Sure you could but.. why?
Level 75
I forgot to mention, you can actually use "regular" php in laravel yet still have all the other goodies.
Example, for some complex queries I use regular PDO using getPdo(). Just a thought.
Level 6
I just need to integrate two systems using their APIs, no auth, database or views. I felt that installing Laravel was a bit of an overkill.
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