Roadmap

Future and current features are listed here. For every planned release, a list of features and landmarks and their progress are shown.

v0.1 (Beta) - Released 2012-08-12

Development

• Database class (finished, 06Jun2011)
  • abstract base database class (created)
  • mysql database class (created)
  • convert framework to use database class
    • query (finished)
    • num_rows (finished)
    • insert_ID (finished, 4Dec2010)
    • next value, in result dataset (postponed to 0.2)
    • next value, in fields dataset (postponed to 0.2)
    • escape string (finished, 31May2011)
    • prepare_sql_field (finished, 06Jun2011)
    • prepare_sql_value (finished, 06Jun2011)
• Rename filenames, classes and functions (finished, 7Mar2010)
• global config file - for database connection, debug and error handling settings, ... (finished, 8Nov2010)
• put all texts in English, and index their location in preparation for the multilingual conversion (finished, 22Jun2011)
• Apply PEAR coding style (finished, June 2012)
• set correct access levels on class methods and variables (finished, Aug 2012)

Documentation

• Document code in source files (finished, Aug 2012)
• Create coding example (finished)

v0.2 (planned)

Development

• singleton for config, factory for databaseserver
• Result class
• Fields/columns class (data abstraction layer)
• Confirm/delete mechanism
• Multilingual translation (gettext implementation)
• Create HMTL tag class
• Create URL class
• Create Link class
• return_url parameter in url
• Tables
  • Navigation buttons (first/previous/next/last x)
  • Integrated filtering using dropdown selection boxes
  • Choosing how to sort using dropdown selection boxes
  • Dynamicaly showing/hiding columns

Future

• Check values (type, range, regexp, ...)
• Unit tests
• Expand database class with methods to create simple SQL statements
• Provide support for more database types (Postgresql, MS SQL, ...)
• Connection between forms and tables
• Functionality to link (relational) tables
• Functionality to create a form/table using a config file (xml?)
• Webform to create a config file
• AJAX/Javascript functionality