Re: Is Pear RADy ?

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 03:12:47 +0200, Olivier Guilyardi <ml@xung.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm starting to develop a business (CRM-like, very database centric) > application for a customer's Intranet, and I'm exploring Pear. I've > coded in PHP for years, already did that kind of stuff, but until now I > was avoiding Pear, because I found its OO'ness exagerated. > > But well, honestly, Pear offers pretty nice components :) which I'm > trying to integrate in a RAD-like development methodology (or laziness, > call it what you want ;). I'm currently experiencing with : > DataObject_Formbuilder, DB_Pager, Pager, HTML_Table. > > The first RAD-unfriendliness that jumps to my eyes is this : > > Pager does not generate HTML. I've had enough of HTML ;) What I > basically need is a bundle class, which I'd give a SQL query (or table > name along with properties, whatever), and this class would turn that > into paginated HTML output. > > A similar functionality is already achieved for forms by > DataObject_Formbuilder. It seems the paging equivalent would be a mix of > DB_Pager and Pager, the later being extended with an HTML output > feature, which HTML_Table could help to implement. > > Or did I miss something, is what I need available in Pear ? Pointers ? > Well, I made a package which isn't actually in PEAR at the moment, but it is developed as if it was. I haven't worked on it in some time, but it still has the ground-work for a DB data editing app. It's based on DB_DataObject_FormBuilder and some Horizontal form renderers I cooked up for HTML_QuickForm. http://www.reversefold.com/PEAR/DB_DataObject_FormBuilder_Frontend/src/ Right now, it's mostly its own stand-alone package, but the pieces are meant to be easily seperated from the app. If you're interested, I wouldn't mind working with you on making it better. -- DB_DataObject_FormBuilder - The database at your fingertips http://pear.php.net/package/DB_DataObject_FormBuilder paperCrane --Justin Patrin--