I'm building a healthcare tool -- about to land first client for a large amount of money. I wrote a bunch of code by hand in PHP with jQuery and Bootstrap. MySQL in the backend.<p>Most of the User Interface is scrolling through DataTables or looking at graphs (Google Charts API) based on the data.<p>I was looking at either CakePHP or CodeIgniter -- but I'm open to others.<p>What would HN recommend?<p>Thanks!
<a href="http://mavrck.com/blog/2013/01/ive-evaluated-php-frameworks-and-the-answer-is-laravel/" rel="nofollow">http://mavrck.com/blog/2013/01/ive-evaluated-php-frameworks-...</a><p>A recent writeup (not by me).<p>Would not recommend CodeIgniter, last time (~1 year ago) I used it it was a pain to get a proper ORM working with it.
<a href="http://www.yiiframework.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.yiiframework.com</a><p>It is actually really well suited to integrating existing code/database (with component architecture and model/controller generators) and takes a lot of principles from the RoR way of doing MVC.
Also, I'm a self taught developer and will be learning MVC and other concepts as I go.. From an old thread I'm seeing some people recommend Laravel but I haven't read into it further.