Project Hades / Discussion / General Discussion: Project Progress November 2014 Update

Just a quick update on the progress of project hades. We have the initial version ready to upload, with a pretty good feature set. I have had to delay the launch due to potential investment into one of the projects that I have used the development framework as a foundation for. The delay comes to ensure that the open source content is reviewed and approved before its initial release.

I expect the first release of the project to happen in January, possibly December, will keep you updated as I know more.

Whats been done so far:

Underlying engine

traffic routing system - translating urls, into requests for sections, resources, and content
browser detection - including platform (windows, linux), browser capabilities (css3, cookies, javascript), device type (mobile, desktop), etc...
firewall - allowed url list, denied url list, 301 redirects, and routing with wildcards
platform independent sql querying - using a object data structure, with more comprehensive error checking.
mysql database support - with full translation of the platform independent query structure into native sql
debugging tools - with full traceroot as standard
environment support - framework can be set to DEVELOPMENT (full development suite enabled), DEBUG (runs as live but with more comprehensive error checking), or LIVE (as live environment)
multiple server configurations - can set different server settings and configurations
comprehensive error monitoring system - allows all errors to be piped to screen, developer console, email and logfiles.
automatic generation of headers, meta tags, page titles, etc.. with easy overrides as required.
external libraries - very easy to use external library support, designed to update any library in just a few seconds. current libraries include:
- Yahoo YUI CSS Reset, Fonts, Base
- jquery
  - jquery cookie
  - jquery UI
- json editor
- moment
- mootools
- browscap
- minify
- phpsysinfo
- zend cache
- ckeditor
- Bootstrap
libraries - works exactly the same as external libraries when including used for internal features such as the form builder and user support
config - comprehensive config files allowing easy modification of the framework behaviour
- authentication
- constants
- database
- developer_tools
- external_lib
- general
- routing
- security
- server
- settings
- system_constants
- system_settings

Sections

easily create new sections in seconds
very quick form creation and automatic styling with bootstrap (optional)
- comprehensive validation on form fields and is set once but validates both in realtime with javascript and on post to server.
- additional form field types including wordbox (using ckeditor), and date / time fields
template support - easily create design templates, with no design limitations
css and javascript groups - javascript/css files are assigned to groups, any items in the same group are automatically combined into a single javascript file.
html, css, javascript compression - content can be compressed using the minify library
html, css, javascript caching - content can be cached using zendcache (others to follow) for much faster load times

Full Developer Console

easy debugging of HTML, SOURCE, XML, XSLT files
console: all errors including, php, database, javascript are captured to the console
variables: any debug data can be logged to the console, with support for all variable types
config settings: allows a developer to override any config variable on the fly just for his session. Very useful for testing, and debugging.
useful php variables such as $_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE and $_SESSION

User Support