Re: "Pseudo PHP Kernel"

Hi Jesper. Though I don't have a good answer, you have a great question, which I'm also very interested in. The best advice I can give you is to read "Web Application Development with PHP 4.0" from New Riders. By Tobias Ratschiller and Till Gerken. It's NOT a PHP reference; it assumes a pretty solid programming base, which you probably have if you're to the point where you're asking questions like this. I'm right in teh middle of the chapter on creating module-based applications. Not being a college-educated programmer, I understand the language just fine, but this book is all about how to write code PROPERLY, from commenting to error checking to reusability to modules-- all teh stuff that's hard to glean from mailing list postings and short tutorials on the web. If you're confident in the language, and trying to understand how to put it all together, then this is the book for you, I think. BTW- I dont' work for them, I'm just reading the book, and it's making me feel more and more like a "real" programmer with every chapter. Hope this helps Don Undeen dundee@metrolink.com P.S. - I'm taking myself off the list today (too many emails!!) so use my email if you want to respond to me. Jesper Hess Nielsen wrote: > Hi all > > I'm sitting here with a wonderful idea, but having some trouble getting my > thoughts down into some useful code. Here is my idea. Any comments are more > than welcome. > > My idea is to ease my programming life in the future, by creating a system > that can easily be extended with modules. Optimally, this system must be > only a central "kernel", which only knows how to extend itself with any > present modules. So if I wanted MySQL support in my system, all I need to do > is create a module for handling MySQL functions. Does anyone have a good > idea as to how I might go about this with PHP? The system needs to be as > flexible as possible, while still keeping track of module dependancies (for > example, a guestbook module needing database access would also require a > database module). To extend on the systems capabilities, all I want to have > to do is upload the module code, and the system will extend itself > automatically. > > Comments, suggestions, ideas etc are all more than welcome. > > Thanks in advance > > /Jesper > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net