Hello,
I wrote a post on Reddit venting some frustration I’ve been having with Laravel. www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/23ocgv/i_think_i_may_have_to_abandon_laravel/
At this point it looks as though I’m going to need to remove some extensions that made life easier. My point in going to a framework and Laravel was to leverage other people’s work such as the extension named Sentinel which provided a robust user management system. But this and another extension has costs me many hours of extra work and grief first by making multiple calls to the database for the same data (which to me is very frustrating) and then, after doing an update, breaking my site so I couldn’t do development work – instead I was bumping questions on different forums trying to get help which did not come.
So, looking for alternatives, and boy are there a lot, I found Yii 2 and it looks cool. But I wonder if it’s worth the time to change frameworks.
I need a solid user management system, a way to process monthly payments, but most of all a community that is robust and friendly. I don’t need immediate answers to my questions but never getting an answer is one of the problems I’m having with the Laravel community.
I’ve still not decided what I’m going to do yet but I’ll probably start with ripping out the Laravel extensions; especially the one that keeps hitting the database multiple times per page load.
Thanks!