Crtx_PEAR_Channel_Frontend

Hello fellow PEARs, I would like to announce a new package which I now deem finished. This is not a package for PEAR, but is instead going to be distributed on my own channel, but I thought some here would find it interesting :) A lot of you on IRC already have seen my work in progress, also anyone who reads my blog. For those who don't know, Crtx_PEAR_Channel_Frontend is a generic pearweb for use by channel servers utilising PEAR_Server. The code is PHP 5 only, as PEAR_Server is PHP 5 only I saw no reason not to use PHP 5 which I dearly prefer over PHP 4 :) Crtx_PEAR_Channel_Frontend provides: * Full listings of packages - Full List (think the category listing in pearweb) - Per Category List - Per Package pages * Categories are optional! * Package Downloads - Download page shows changelogs etc * Package Search - By package name (AND/OR word matchings) - By Maintainer - By Category * Full maintainer listings - Includes Profile type pages for each maintainer * E-Mail maintainer via form only! * RSS feeds for latest release, per package releases and releases per maintainer * Basic Installation Guide * FAQ (I need help to write these :) * PEAR::Pager used for all lists that may get long * No templating included (except in examples) - Just throw the code into your existing design, it outputs in nice clean semantic (except where HTML_QuickForm is used) XHTML which can be nicely styled (like my example :) * Navigation/<link>'s for RSS feeds automatically output or you can do them yourselves and call the public methods yourself/send the right GET vars :) Crtx_PEAR_Channel_Frontend requires: * PEAR_Server (with modifications I have yet to commit to CVS, will do so tonight!) * Pager * DB_DataObject (PEAR_Server requirement also) * HTML_QuickForm (PEAR_Server requirement also) You can see Crtx_PEAR_Channel_Server in action on: http://pear.davey.is-a-geek.com - click view source to see the source for the entire website. Also note that I have paging set explicitly to 2 items per page to make it visible on the package listings :) I have removed the actual tgz's so as to conserve my bandwidth (they'll be available on my server soon enough :) Crtx_PEAR_Channel_Server will be available from my blog some time tomorrow I hope. I need to commit my changes to PEAR_Server and make a release of that, then release this :) I can't put this up on my own channel server till I can upgrade PEAR 1.4.0, the debug_backtrace() segfault is not letting me do that :/ Anyways, feedback would be great, new additions I can make also welcome. - Davey P.S. If you are willing to use another file just for the RSS feeds there are no restrictions in place for this code, otherwise you *must* instantiate Crtx_PEAR_Channel_Frontend *before* output. Oh yes, and it *must* reside at the channel's URI for RSS feeds to work also. Will change this methinks :)