Hello, As a side note, I forgot to mention that the Metastorage tutorial is available here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/metal-dev/files/metastorage/tutorial.html --- As you may have noticed, finally I have uploaded an alpha version of the Metastorage tutorial document that I have been writing very slowly in the latest months. This tutorial document is suppose to teach how to install Metastorage packages, design components, generate code and use the generated code in real applications. It is an alpha version because only part of the sections mentioned above are fully written. The other sections will be finished in the next days. Although it is not complete as I wanted, I decided to release it now as it is just for your evaluation. The reason is that I have been approached by people asking if the project is alive. The project is very alive. It is just that I have to split my time with the development and maintenance of the PHP Classes site. The good news is that the Web based advertising business is back and that has been providing enough income to dedicate to the PHP Classes site. So, now it is time to work on features that have been requested by many users for the PHP Classes site, as these also lead to the exhibition of more pages to show to ads of the potential advertisers. This has directly to do with the development of MetaL and its sub-projects like Metastorage because the new features that are planned will be based on code generated by Metastorage. As a side comment, it is possible that will release two new products based on MetaL some time later. One is meant to support literate programming (documentation within source code comments) like Knuth CWEB or Javadoc but based on an information rich XML markup syntax, instead of that cryptic markup language that Knuth invented and others have copied. I have already used this product and called it metadocument. You may seen an example of the code with embedded comments and the example of generated documentation here. This is a class that I wrote recently to monitor error log files by e-mail and decided to generate documentation with metadocument . http://www.phpclasses.org/logwatcher The other product is meant to support theme based sites by integrating design templates into application code. For now, it is only idealized. No code was written, except for the template module of the MetaL compiler that was one of the first that I wrote in the beginning 4 years ago and I am also using to generate Metastorage form handling classes and the documentation for MetaL and other projects. Anyway, for now what matters is the Metastorage tutorial. I plan to finish it soon. Meanwhile I would appreciate any feedback regarding whether this tutorial presents enough information to help you take advantage of Metastorage, at least the parts it is completed. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: metal-dev-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/saFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Look here for Free PHP Classes of objects: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
