> Nathan Rixham wrote: > > Evening All, > > > > I'm feeling the need to either start or contribute to something > > opensource and in PHP. > > > > Anybody have any worthy causes or projects they'd like to collab on > to > > get off the ground; open to all options preference going to anything > > framework, orm, webservice or basically anything without an html > front > > end :) > > > > Afternoon, > > I've had a look through the two frameworks that Alex and Craige have > sent through, done a lot of thinking and came to a decision, well more > of an idea. I'd be interested in thoughts / comments. > > What: > A light generic framework for php developers, built API style with a > public interface (web service) and a private interface (PHP 5 classes). > > =Base=: > > 3rd Party WS Integrations: > Amazon AWS and S3 services, Yahoo's API's, OpenCalais, Google API's > (more..?) > > Additional Product Integrations: > Apache SOLR, ARC2 (for rdf and sparql support?), Doctrine (ORM)? > > Templating: > Smart, other or custom. > > DB: > PDO/Doctrine + contrib to doctrine project as well (or fork?) OR custom > ORM built on top of PDO. > > PHP Client Lib's: > HTTP 1.1, SOAP 1.2 (with the ws-* suite), xml-rpc and maybe XMPP? > > XML: > Generic XML Parser using DOM API > Object to XML and XML to Object support, aim to add __toXML() for all > classes. > Specific XML Parsers, XHTML, RSS, ATOM, SOAP, RDF, XML-RPC (maybe XMPP) > Specific XML Writers (same as above) > > Helpers: > Some things like a Arrays, HashMaps, Tree class, filesystem > negotiation, > verification for common data types (emails and the like) Primitive > types > maybe byte, int, real, string classes too?) - Dates and thoughts on an > Arbitary Precision Class as well for the hell of it? > > Internals: > Framework structure and design pattern(s), Generic Object Class with > id's etc, Generic Cache Class (unless in ORM layer), interfaces, > Exception handler, logging, autoloader(s) etc. > An additional I'd like in here is auto initiation via an "initiator" > interface(s) and analysis on all framework classes via reflection to > auto initiate classes upon framework load. > > [probably do all of the above in reverse order eh.. the framework core, > all with private api's (eg classes)] > > Second Layer: (all with private and public api's) > After the above a series of generic domain model/business object > classes > such as user, address, article etc etc built on top of the ORM stuff. > tbd! Probably worth getting a load agreed, defined and drawn up in UML. > > and really no point going any further here.. > > Thoughts? (open to all obviously) This all seems a bit complicated, qhich is what I am trying to avoid. Alex No virus found in this outgoing message. Scanned by AVG Free 8.0 Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.9/1806 - Release Date: 22/11/2008 18:59 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
