Scaffolding for PHP

Question

Is there any thing in PHP to create basic scaffold, like in Rails?

EDIT: I need something to prototype quickly..

Answer 1

If you use CakePHP as the web framework it supports scafalding. See this link for more info. http://book.cakephp.org/view/105/Scaffolding

Answer 2

Some frameworks like Symfony, CakePHP, Akelos, CodeIgniter and others have support for scaffolding.

However if you don't want to use a framework you can try phpScaffold which generates CRUD scaffold pages based on phpMyAdmin table exports...

Answer 3

QCodo is another great option. And since it uses reflection to do Code Generation instead of reflection at runtime, you'll likely see better performance.

Answer 4

First, Rails is a framework. PHP is a language. PHP does not have built-in scaffolding support, just as Ruby--the language Rails is build on--does not. A framework like CakePHP, however, does support scaffolding.

Second, I see that you raised an objection to CakePHP because "you still have to do a bunch of stuff." That's true--with any framework, you're going to have to learn new conventions, configurations etc.

Answer 5

For myslef I Use CodeIniter for development, sure they have scaffolding, but only in terms of a "simple scaffolding" which mean you're not gonna use it in live product (i dunno about everyone but i'm only using it as some tools) .

but if you need some like CRUD generator you can use SparkPlug , or Ignition both of them can be used on Codeigniter

Answer 6

Another approach to scaffolding is using action delegates... a pretty good article on that can be found here http://iam.mrburly.com/content/display/show/slug/action-delegates.

Answer 7

For anyone else reading this thread, I've released a powerful standalone scaffold class for PHP: http://www.aaronharp.com/dev/php-scaffold-class/

Answer 8

what about aaronharp.com scaffold class? is $29 but its worthit.