Re: [phplib-users] PHP 5.2 and PHPlib

[aric c. <gre...@gm...>]

I hate seeing old things die.  Then again, sometimes, you have to move on.

I guess what would be needed is for someone to say hey, I'll take over
this.  And then, to sit down and decide which direction to take it in.

Direction would depend on who else is interested and what they would like to
see.

My opinion is this:

I think the current default handing of sessions in PHP sucks.  I just got
bit by some security holes due to session handling.  I think there is still
a need for a top notch, efficient and flexible session handling system.

I also like the authentication system and it doesnt seem like there's many
other good auth systems out there.

I never used the ooforms.  I have some ideas about auto generating forms
from objects, but its way beyond ooforms.

I could see moving phplib to be php 5.x only, make it fully take advantage
of all php 5 features.  It should probably stay being something less than a
full blown framework and more a library of components where you can pick and
choose.  Then again frameworks are all the rage, so why not?

At this point though, it almost seems like any advancement of phplib would
be mostly a rewrite with some level of compatibility (and I gather that most
people are going to opt for compatibility over new features), wherein the
resulting package would be mostly a new framework that just uses the name
PHPLib.


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Lindsay Haisley <fmo...@fm...>wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 07:14 +1000, Richard Archer wrote:
> > Is there still enough
> > interest in PHPLIB to justify such work?
>
> My situation here is similar to Frank's, although I have enough customer
> pages in use using PHPlib that I'm not going abandon it altogether -
> just integrate it into a PHP5 environment as-is.
>
> I've re-written some of the PHPlib classes to make use of PEAR packages,
> and am using these for new work.  In this, I've preserved the PHPlib API
> inasmuch as possible since I'm familiar with it.
>
> The general configuration that I've developed for both new and old work
> moved into a PHP5 environment is flexible enough to allow me to change a
> couple of files and fully support PHPlib, or some other set of classes
> as I wish.
>
> Yes, I'd be quite interested in seeing PHPlib updated so as to be fully
> compatible with PHP5 "out of the box".  The main reason I'm moving away
> from it is that the project appears to be more or less abandoned.
>
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