Re: feedback on OO plan for site

For general PHP classes, I would go for PEAR! http://pear.php.net/manual/en/ Just a thought! ------------------------------ Martin Cabrera Diaubalick kisland.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Hankerson" <ghank@millerdavis.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Cc: <ghank@lawlead.com> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 2:00 PM Subject: [PHP] feedback on OO plan for site > I am building a Web application that will be a clearing house for legal > information in all 50 states. I would like to hear your comments on how > to go about developing it. I am going to use Php/MySQL with a bit of xml > and xslt to do this. I work for a company that provides services to > attorneys so we have most of this information at our disposal already. I > want to use a MVC approach with as much OO code as I can to make site > development/maintainence as easy as possible and start developing some > reusable components as well. Also I have the database set up and fairly > well normalized. > > Here are the requirements of the application are: > 1. A searchable attorney directory that allows attorney members to login > securely to edit their own profile and upload their photo. > 2. A series of Legal Resources (links) based on predetermined categories > and subcategories > 3. A message board type application where the public can leave questions > for attorneys to answer (with explicit instruction that this is not > considered qualified legal advice) and browse through archived answers. > 4. A shopping cart application with products available from multiple > vendors and multi-tier price structure based on quantities selected > 5. General legal Guides to give site visitors a introduction to areas of > law > 6. Multiple skins to package all this information under multiple Domain > Names (one will have a consumer focus another a business focus) > 7. Administrative pages for office workers to update all this stuff > > All 5 of these items will be based on a set of legal categories (and > sub-categories) such as Family Law, Personal Injury, Commercial Law, > etc.. In other words site visitors will be able to browse family law > attorneys, post questions in Family Law, buy Family Law products, read a > Family law guide and view Family Law Legal Resources for a given state. > > So in the V (Views) of MVC I will use XSLT to accomplish packaging the > info in multiple skins maybe even multiple formats (html of course, but > maybe wml, pdf and RSS too) > > That means in the C (Controller) will need a way to convert database > content into xml. I have made a class to query a database and return > xml. I will also need classes for: > 1.form validation > 2 secure logins. > If you have some suggestions on good libraries for this I would love to > here them to avoid reinventing the wheel here. > > So in the M (Model or business logic) I see the following object with > the accompanying methods and properties do see anything I am missing or > that is off-track: > Member (attorney) > Properties: > Name > Add > Phone > Email > Profile > Photo (path - filename based on primary key from table ie. > primaryKey.jpg) > > Methods: > Getter and Setter methods for all properties > Update (Create built in here) > Remove > > Firms (extends Member) > methods > getMembers (returns array of members or memberIDs) > > > > Client (site visitor who posts questions or uses shopping cart) > Properties > Name > City > State > email > Methods > Getter and Setter methods for all properties > Update (Create) > Remove > > Shopping Cart > Methods: > addItem > removeItem > getAllItems > updateQuantity > > Product > Properties: > ProductID > Name > Vendor > Description > Quantity > Price > Methods > Getter and Setter methods for all properties > Update (Create) > Remove > > > > Vendor > Properties: > Name > Description > ContactPerson > ContactPhone > ContactEmail > Methods > Getter and Setter methods for all properties > Update (Create) > Remove > > Message ( > Properties > Sender > Recipient > Subject > Body > DateTimeStamp > Methods > Getter and Setter methods for all properties > Populate (retrieve from database) > Send > Guide > Properties > Title > Body > Methods > Getter and Setter methods for all properties > Populate (retrieve from database) > Update (Create) > > So, sorry for such a long-winded message but to review I would like to > here your comments on existing classes for user authentication, form > checking, and maybe even a message board class (or app). > > On the methods, do you see anything I am missing? Anything that doesn't > belong? Thanks > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php