Components

[Evert | Rooftop <evert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi people,

I'm working on a component system and started with a component class.
The idea is the following:

<component id="c1" type="forms/LoginForm" class="joop" />
<component id="c2" type="TextArea" width="200px">
  Sample text
</component>
<component id="c3" type="VPanel" class="sample">
 <component id="c4" type="Button" caption="Yoo!" />
</component>

Don't worry about speed or anything, I'm taking care of that..

This is my PseudoComponent class

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   class PseudoComponent extends PseudoModule {

       function __construct(&$sabretooth, $id) {}// constructs the 
component
       function __destruct() {}                  // destructs the component
       function addChild(&$child) {}             // Ads a child to the 
component    
       function canAcceptCDATA {}                // Returns wheter or 
not this component can contain CDATA
       function canHaveChildren {}               // Returns wheter or 
not this component can contain children
       function display() {                      // displays the component
       function displayChildren{}                // displays component 
children
       function &getParent()                     // returns this 
components' parent
       function getProperty($property) {}        // returns a 
property-value
       function insertComponent($targer) {}      // inserts this 
component into another component
       function setProperty($property,$value) {} // sets a property

   }

I want to give PHP to have a natural application-programming feel, along 
with events and all (which is implemented by the PseudeModule class).
And after that, start off with a web-based PHP RAD tool. (which I plan 
to do with either document.designMode or XUL)
||But! I also want to keep things simple, a low learning curve, and 
still very extensible.

I want to start really good and I have given myself a lot of thought 
about it and I decided the best thing for me would be to start out with 
a proper base class while looking at how the guys from Macromedia Flex 
and Borland Delphi did it =)

This is my idea, am I missing something essetial, I know everything is 
still very vague, but if you could give a comment on it, I would appriciate.

One issue I still have, I would like to make the components produce 
different output based on skins, to give an idea about how I want to do 
this, i'll show you an example list:

xhtml_default
xhtml_fire
xhtml_storm
wml_default
xul_default
xul_pimping
mxml_default
xforms_default
xhtml_ajax_default
xhtml_ajax_fire

Any ideas or suggestions are welcome =)

grt,
Evert
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