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Ask HN: Simplest tool to build a web app
My friend wanted to build a light weight web app with a database as back end. Should be easy to maintain and host. Core of it should be immune to SQL Injections, XSS and DOS attacks. mostly it will be used with in a organization.
- ErrantX 17y agoHow long is a piece of string? Seriously though I would say PHP plus MySQL and Memcache for scaling. With a reasonably modern framework like Kohana PHP you can build stuff pretty quickly on dirt cheap, no brainer hardware. :) As to XSS/DOS etc. that is down to your code and to the server setup - somewhat difficult.
- hashg 17y agoKohana, Codeigniter...how good is libraries/plugin support on these.. Any other competitors?
- ErrantX 17y agopretty solid. You get plenty of the basics (ORM, session handling etc) with the core package and there are a whole load of community built libraries (projects.kohanaphp.com) I couldn't comment on CI too much: I stopped using it around 18 months ago.
- digamber_kamat 17y agoYou can try Kohana.
- narendranag 17y agoI've been using Codeigniter - a PHP framework. It's very very well documented -- you have to read the documentation to see how good it is. And the input class is very good at handling most XSS/SQL Injection type attacks.