[binarycloud-dev] notes on init

[Alex B. <en...@tu...>]

hi all,

if you're going to look at init, I might as well explain what this stuff
does, which is best done by explaining this public method (Startup):

btw, how interested is everyone in public cvs access at this point?
I can do it so I synch to sourceforge on a daily/hourly/whatever basis - but
I'm only going to do that if people want to commit :)

class init...

    function Startup() {
        $this->_set_bc_path();
        * this figures out BC_PATH based on Init.php's location

        $this->_start_timer();
        * this includes core/lib/Timer.php and starts the timer

        $this->_load_debug();
        * this includes core/lib/Debug, and makes a new instance of Debug
        * note that debug is, uh, so not done :)
        * the idea w/this, btw is to allow you do insert
        * $Debug->Capture("label","value")
        * in your code, and have debug print a nice message for you later
        * you can use this to track the execution of code,
        * or remind yourself to get more sprite when you go the the market!

        *eventually, debug output will be serious (i'll post this in the
         next message)


        $this->_start_ob();
        * this starts output buffering

        $this->_set_user_constants();
        * this require_once's user/conf/conf.php

        $this->_load_lang();
        * this checks the user constants to see if BC_LANG has been set.
        * if not, it loads up the Lang class, which figures out
        * what to set it to, and based on that charset, date, and currency

        $this->_set_system_constants();
        * this sets the system paths
        * the reason this is all the way down here, is because we use real
        * paths in the filesystem to deal with multiple languages.
        * you'll see a commented out BC_USER with a BC_LANG tagged on the
        * end.

        $this->_set_ini();
        * this sets all of our ini settings

        $this->_load_error();
        * this loads up PEAR_Error, which we will use for error handling.
        * ... assuming it doesn't piss us off. :)

        $this->_load_auth();
        * this checks the $bc_page array to see if it should load auth,
        * and does it. it calls auth->Authenticate and ->Collect_Garbage
        * the auth class in the r2 shell isn't functional, it's copy+paste
        * from the old auth.

        $this->_load_perm();
        * same thing, but for perm.

//        $this->_load_dispatch();
        * I have decided that dispatch is a stupid name. no more dispatch

        $this->_load_page();
        * this is exactly the same as dispatch, but it's called Page.
        * because it builds pages.

        $this->_load_sess();
        * after all the classes are in, we load up the session class and
        * start a session.
        * this will include a session.save_handler (you can see the ugly-
        * thinking out loud code in there) :P

have phun!

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