Re: PHP (PEAR) Component Object Model

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:14, Philippe LACHAISE wrote: > Hi, > > I hope here is the right place for submitting proposals. > > Anyway from a newcomer's point of view PEAR appears like a treasure island > without a map. Like all over the PHP community there seem to be hundreds of > very talented people giving away their work for the benefit of others. > > The trouble is that reuse is sub-optimal due to the lack of a unifying PHP > component model. Too much learning effort is expected from potential users > and, often, developping from scratch is less intimidating an option. > > For those who, like me, miss the availability of a component framework for > PHP that would enable out-of-the-box component reuse, I suggest to have a > look at : http://sourceforge.net/projects/reflexivecms/ > > It's not a CMS despite its name, but a working implemention of a purely PHP > component framework. I feel that PEAR classes could easily be wrapped into > components and made much less intimidating (by lessening the need for > in-depth documentation). > > I would gladly collaborate with whoever would like to integrate the proposed > technology into a standard or evolve one from it. Sounds like an application framework. InterJinn and undoubtedly others already provide consistent APIs for reusing things like PEAR or PHP Classes classes. This isn't to say you shouldn't do your own framework, but the idea isn't new. As an alternative to the default MySQL database layer, InterJinn provides a PEAR DB layer. This illustrates the ease at which 3rd party libraries can be integrated, whether it be from PEAR, PHP Classes, or anywhere else. As already stated though, it's hardly likely that Interjinn alone provides these mechanisms, and so I would surmise that there are lots of maps out there, all leading to the same island :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'