Back Into Action

I have been inactive on this project for quite some time due to health reasons. However, I am happy to report that my organ transplant surgery was a success and I shall resume development work on phpwebtk soon. This project is on the brink of reaching 3000 downloads and I think it's worth putting more effort into it.

In the next release, I plan to include updated versions of ADOdb for database abstraction, Mcrypt for encryption, Mhash for hashing, Kses for content filtering, eAccelerator (new) for opcode caching, Smarty for templating and FCKeditor (new) for WYSIWYG. I am also going to work on adding secure forms-based Authentication, adding a sample phpwebtk application, updating all of the documentation including the UML diagrams and creating tutorials.

I also did some profiling of phpwebtk and I found out that the 50ms load time issue I identified in the results of my benchmarks was due to ADOdb. I may have to only autoload the ADOdb libraries when it's necessary to reduce overall load times because loading ADOdb each time a request comes seems to be unfeasable. Why does it take 50ms to load ADOdb? Anyway, it probably should only be autoloaded when actual database requests are made. Then again, perhaps the newer version of ADOdb does not have this issue any longer but it'll have to be tested.

This is really all I want to focus on at this point because I want to get phpwebtk to the point where people can actually see an out-of-the-box application built with phpwebtk. Having said that, phpwebtk has evolved to be more of a framework that reuses the works of other popular PHP projects to be able to rapidly build applications.