Are there any other PHP frameworks like CodeIgniter?

There's a fork of CodeIgniter called Kohana The connectivity to the legacy database shouldn't be an issue of the framework though, I guess it's more a PHP issue if the connection won't work.

There's a fork of CodeIgniter called Kohana. The connectivity to the legacy database shouldn't be an issue of the framework though, I guess it's more a PHP issue if the connection won't work.

The Zend Framework might be your best bet: Zend Framework is an open source, object oriented web application framework for PHP 5. Zend Framework is often called a 'component library', because it has many loosely coupled components that you can use more or less independently. Since you can use the components independently, you will have more flexibility in choosing your models and data access.Be warned though, there is a steep learning curve.

Apparently Qcodo is supposed to be a lot like rails according to gadgetopia.com/post/4726 other than that (and symfony, Yii, and CakePHP) if you're comfortable with CI, do go for Kohana, as Cassey mentioned You could also just use PEAR or some wrappers. If you have legacy databases I wonder if you might have older php/mysql tht it sits on, in which case a lot of the newer frameworks that are updated for the latest/greatest might not work for you anyway.

I'd look at Kohana or Yii. Sure, Yii has scaffolding, but you don't HAVE to use that if you don't want to. Just as with Ruby on Rails.

Both are MVC frameworks that are very object oriented. How you connect to databases is totally up to you. You can use the ORM in Kohana without following their naming conventions, you just have to let the Models know the name of your tables and primary keys (otherwise you have to follow the convention, of course).

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