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Hello everybody,
I'm in process of selecting a PHP framework for my application and at first sight I like CodeIgniter. I have a general question, since I need to know if it will satisfy my needs.
I need a framework that would help me in creating an application focused around a database. I mean that I want to be able to for example define that a "document" has a "header" and some "lines" (take an invoice for example). I'd like the framework to take care about the interface to add or delete lines to document, perform validation of data and so on.
In other words I need a framework that would allow me to define the structure of the information that I want to have stored in a DB, and a framework should generate the interface for that, create tables and so on.
I imagine for example that in a user's browser supported javascript, adding a line to a document would employ JS (or AJAX), and if a browser had JS turned off, it would work server-side. I further imagine that I could define some validation rules for the data that is inserted and if some of them were violated a framework would raise an action that I could customize (for example highlight the field and forbid saving the document). And some way to process the document would be useful -- by assigning different statuses to it and assigning it to different people (sort of like a workflow application).
Is there such a functionality in CodeIgniter? Or is there an addon for this? Or maybe it is possible in some other framework?
Thanks for help!
