Frameworks are bad m'kay

frameworks-sigh.md

This document will be a reminder why most (/ almost all) frameworks out there just suck monkey balls.

Let's just make a nice list of all the really bad stuff that is happening in the popular frameworks.
And maybe publish it just to give people the shivers.

CodeIgniter

Are we evaling now?

• OR might be just personal preference, but c'mon who uses OR in PHP. And why would you?
• Why no use Autoloader?
• We need more eval(). And wait, wut? What are we eval()ing?

if ( ! isset($active_record) OR $active_record == TRUE)
{
    require_once(BASEPATH.'database/DB_active_rec.php');

    if ( ! class_exists('CI_DB'))
    {
        eval('class CI_DB extends CI_DB_active_record { }');
    }
}
else
{
    if ( ! class_exists('CI_DB'))
    {
        eval('class CI_DB extends CI_DB_driver { }');
    }
}

Global variable variable? Really??

• Global is the cherry on top of the cake. Yay!

foreach (array($_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE) as $global)
{
    if ( ! is_array($global))
    {
        if ( ! in_array($global, $protected))
        {
            global $$global;
            $$global = NULL;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        foreach ($global as $key => $val)
        {
            if ( ! in_array($key, $protected))
            {
                global $$key;
                $$key = NULL;
            }
        }
    }
}

Research

http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/3612798#3612798

https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/blob/develop/system/core/Loader.php#L853

http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/3612873#3612873

https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/blob/develop/system/helpers/smiley_helper.php#L78

http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/3613051#3613051

https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/master/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/HttpCache/HttpCache.php#L597

https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/master/src/Symfony/Component/Templating/PhpEngine.php#L173

https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/master/src/Symfony/Component/Routing/Matcher/Dumper/PhpMatcherDumper.php#L231

Just...ugh.