Best PHP framework with Admin Section

Question

I've being developing with Django for about two years. I recently was hired by a company that has about 20 sites that are all PHP. The PHP is very old and has really bad coding practices.

I would like to switch them over to Django but that might take awhile as the site have heavy e-commerce integrations. In the meantime I would like to switch them to a PHP framework that has a nice, quick admin area like Django.

I would like to have something setup by tomorrow and Symfony is pretty much out of the question. I don't really like how it works.

Are there any PHP frameworks that have easy to configure admin areas? Frameworks with sample projects would help.

Answer 1

Drupal (http://drupal.org/) is really easy to set up and administer, but it's also very customizable. I've used it on several sites and have had a great experience with it.

As far as Drupal demos go, it comes with a default site setup that you can work with right away. The official site has a ton of modules that you can install, and a lot of those have example sites and code.

Joomla (http://www.joomla.org/) is another popular framework, but I haven't worked on a Joomla project. I demo'd it and found it less clean that Drupal.

Answer 2

Ryeguy is not completely right. You mentioned Symfony yourself but that is not why I disagree with Ryeguy.

There is Silverstripe which is based on Sapphire. A beautiful CMS / Framework combo.

Answer 3

I found Wildflower CMS based off of CakePHP. It seems to have everything I'm looking for: Clean admin, easy development and nice standards.

Answer 4

hey guys have you tried Adventure PHP Framework and evoCore PHP Framework ? http://adventure-php-framework.org http://evocore.net

at quick glance, they provide the framework with user management but not necessarily cms