hmmm... cause or effect?

I seem to have bad luck with the one I named Alderaan, though. It seems to either disappear or blow up randomly when I plug my laptop (deathstar) on to the network. I don't get it either.

There are many reasons to chose to create your own framework, just as there are many reasons why you may choose not to.

Personally, I avoid mainstream OSS frameworks because of the security implications involved. Not that writing your own framework will reduce security implications (technically), but if you look at wordpress or joomla, both of which had a number of security exploits that targeted and penetrated millions of web sites that were using them, begs the question: would you want to be another one of those 'stunned' victims?

There are 'robots' crawling the web specifically programmed to root-out targeted exploits within specific OSS web apps, such as wordpress and joomla. The chances of someone writing a bot to exploit your (1 and only) framework, that nobody else uses, is a LOT less likely, albeit still possible.

There are also code-control issues to consider. As someone who has written PHP for years, and had to work with other people's code as well, I find it far less aggravating to work with my own code base, especially considering it takes about as long to adapt to someone else's code, as it does to simply write your own.

Originality is another big issue as well. If I have to look at one more mucked-up wordpress, drupal, or joomla site again, I think I'll stop browsing the internet entirely. Blogs have ruined the Web Application Ecosystem, imho. /digress