Re: A Tool For Building PHP Web Apps

Roadsend is very beta when I last checked and while promising seemed to be geared more towards taking php and moving it to the desktop without using gtk. I could see the uses but I think adobe air fits that model better with less to worry about. Personally, I am leaning more and more towards using php to build XSLTs and just passing the data via XML. It fits nicely with the mvc framework models and reduces the view code dramatically. Sorry for top posting Bastien Sent from my iPod On Apr 10, 2009, at 1:32, Asher Snyder <asnyder@noloh.com> wrote:

This might be what you're looking for: http://www.roadsend.com/home/index.php -----Original Message----- From: Paul M Foster [mailto:paulf@quillandmouse.com] Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 1:28 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] A Tool For Building PHP Web Apps Here's a hairbrained idea I was kicking around. I object to the idea of including 15 or 30 files in a PHP application just to display one page on the internet. It makes the coding faster, but it makes the display slower and seems silly to me. So what if you had a tool or a set of tools where you could write code snippets and such, and then hit a button or issue a command, and everything you specified got written into a single file? You'd specify that this page needs to read the config, set up a database connection, validate these fields, etc. When you were done, it would write all this code to a *single* file, which the user would invoke by surfing to that page. The resulting code would be *static*, not like what results from most templating systems. So rather than specify a specific variable value in the resulting file, it would embed the PHP code to display the variable, etc. What might be the liabilities of something like that? Would there be security issues? Would there be increased difficulty in debugging? What can you think of? Paul --Paul M. Foster --PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php --PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php