Miles Johnson

Sorry for the lack of activity

Its been over a month since I posted an entry and even longer then that since it was a CakePHP entry. My goal was to post on average two entries a week, or at most 10 entries a month, but I have failed to do that so I am sorry. I mainly have been absent because of my new job I started on November 2nd, and it has been taking up most of my time and day. Furthermore, I haven't worked in CakePHP for months, seeing as how I have no new projects or features to add to my existing ones. I still haven't upgraded to 1.3!

However, I recently started on another CakePHP project and will hopefully have a few more topics to talk about. Lastly, you may have heard me mention on Twitter that I started building my own framework, which is 100% true. As of right now, the framework has a fully functional Controller and View system, but is missing a Model/database. For the Model aspect, I think I will be going down the Doctrine adapter route, and possibly building my own later on.

Here are just a couple of features currently implemented in the system: Routing, Environments, Controller containers (similar to Zend modules), Class dependencies (not really injection, you'll have to see an example), Registry (Factories and config injection), Lazy loading dependencies, Hooks and callbacks, Debugging and error logging, Exception handling, App global configuration, and has been built using a modular system. What does a modular system mean you ask? Well it basically means that you can use your own script or any 3rd party script in place of the default module. For example, you can use the frameworks view engine, or you can configure it to use a Twig or Smarty adapter engine very easily. The same goes for helpers, libraries, models (Doctrine adapter), extensions, etc. The only modules that can not be changed are the controller and core classes that are used to run the framework.

I'm pretty happy with my self and how this framework came along so far, and I will be showing some code snippets at a later time. Besides all that, I will try my best to start posting actively again!