Would you agree this is the definition of a PHP framework?

[TomB]

@tony_marston404

According to your logic if I use the “Add Customer” transaction 100 times to add 100 different customers to my database then I have violated the DRY principle simply because I have used the same transaction 100 times. Do you now how ridiculous that sounds?

If it’s generating similar code 100 times then yes, it is violating DRY. Just because you automated the repetition and didn’t have to type it out repeatedly doesn’t mean there isn’t repeated code, it’s just automatically generated repeated code.