you're ditching FuelPHP and moving unto Laravel? Phil Sturgeon 2012-09-19 Angelo: No, you have totally missed the whole point of this article. I am not simply swapping out one framework for another, I am trivialising my dependency on a single framework by using portable components that work in ANY framework. I will not use CodeIgniter, FuelPHP 1.x, Kohana or Laravel 3.x, but I will use Slim, Silex, Laravel 4.x, Symfony2, FuelPHP 2.x or anything else that runs with components/packages. Is that more clear? Jamie 2012-09-19 Great article. I definitely agree that Composer and packages are the way forward for PHP. I actually keep a little list of awesome libraries (that are Composer installable) that I've stumbled across: https://gist.github.com/1677679 I love the idea of Composer. One thing that really bothers me though is when I browse through Packagist I find lots of open source libs from Symfony or Zend converted into packages, which are being maintained by some random person who isn't even a contributor to the library. It seems like the wild west in there right now. Vamsi 2012-10-15 Good to see you promoting Composer. I have been using composer since symfony2 guys embraced it . Now I am actually not using any framework in a new project, but using modular packages, which I like, not just the one that ships with a framework . Post a comment Your Name: Email Address: Website: Message: About I am from Bristol and I like cider. I am at heart a PHP developer