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

[tony_marston404]

@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.

It is NOT repeated code! The same code is run many times, but each time it produces a different result by creating new records on the database or new files on disk.

The DRY principle is only violated when you have identical blocks of code appearing in multiple places in the same piece of software.