Components

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 | 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 |