Re: PEAR application framework

Hi Jackson, I'm currently working on such a project! Domains are already registered ;-) It uses Smarty, MDB and some others but I'm not really sure whether to release/propose it in PEAR. I've not thought about it yet. But I could imagine ;-) It is completely programmed by using the PEAR CS and I'll start learning phpDocumentor soon... It is planned to have the first release including docs, examples and maybe 2 or 3 little applications in December and a preview maybe in October. It is/will be event-driven and there will be many nice things making life easier - for example a "configuration center" using XML files to build configuration dialogs and save configs in a shared dir in "ini files" preserving comments. Similar to Java there will also be a "component model" and a manager to make them easily working together. And many more... Regards, Matthias Jackson Miller wrote:

I am sure I am not the only one who is interested in there one day being a PEAR application framework package(s). I am wondering who else has been thinking about this and if anyone is working on such a project. I would like a system that glues together the best of the best packages of PEAR. This would include a Templating package(Smarty? IT?), Auth package (probably LiveUser and something more simple for sites that don't need LU), database abstraction (MDB + MDB_Query_Tool), QuickForm, some XML stuff, SOAP, the MAIL API, etc. I am thinking that the glue that could pull this together would be a base module class that provides a consistent API for having pages interact with the packages listed above. There may even be a good way to have dependencies and some sort loadable module support. I understand that what I am describing is similar to projects like MVC.php, but there is a sense of security in PEAR and the PEAR process. Has anyone else been mulling this over? Has anyone began work on such a project? Is this a stupid or immature idea? Thanks, -Jackson

-- Viele Grüße Matthias