Migrating from fusebox ColdFusion to PHP

Question

I am currently working on converting a ColdFusion website, using Fusebox framework, to PHP. The site contains like 20,000 lines of ColdFusion code. My dilemma is, should I switch to Fusebox-PHP (as it will be easier to migrate the project layout) or a robust and popular framework like Symfony or Zend.

Can anyone suggest a few points in favor or against the three options?

1. migrate to Fusebox-PHP
2. migrate to Zend
3. migrate to Symfony

Answer 1

Fusebox has been abandoned for a variety of issues (legal issues amongst them iirc). As long as you are rewriting it into PHP you might as well switch to a more current framework. Sure, you will have to learn how to do the same things a new way, but on the bright side you will have gained experience with a popular framework!

Ultimately Fusebox is dead and it would be unwise to use it (unless you were doing something turn-key like just migrating to Railo)

Answer 2

My opinion is that Fusebox is an old framework that is not only not that popular with ColdFusion any more, but never really took off in the PHP world.

I would either find a new framework or do without the framework depending on the complexity of the site, there are many good PHP frameworks out there.

Looks like the last release for PHP was 7 years ago in 2005