[Webcomp-main] PhpBaseClasses status

[Philip V. H. <spa...@fr...>]

Hi there,

This is the first time that I send to this list so I will introduce
myself first:

I am he author of PhpBaseClasses. A few days ago I contacted the author
of webcomp/dotPHP to discust "working together" on this framework that
we are both building.=20

My project, PhpBaseClasses is more like a layer between your application
and your storage-media that makes it object oriented and very easy to do
common tasks like creating a forum, creating a link-basket,
creating/managing Users and doing typical website-security with these
users, creating sales-items, creating a online shoppingcart using
cookies/sessions and sales-items, creating categories and etc etc etc.

You can find more information about PhpBaseClasses here :
http://phpbaseclasses.sourceforge.net

PhpBaseClasses contains a XML-file with it's complete API-reference :
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/phpbaseclasses/=
phpbaseclasses/manual/api.xml?rev=3DHEAD&content-type=3Dtext/xml

PhpBaseClasses also contains a DIA UML sheme which, in the future, might
become generated using the API-reference XML-file :
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/phpbaseclasses/=
phpbaseclasses/manual/UML.dia?rev=3DHEAD

PhpBaseClasses, by itself and unlike Webcomp, does not create any
end-user content. This is also not PhpBaseClasses purpose!
PhpBaseClasses is there for you when you need abstraction for very
common things. The reason why we, at my company, use it is because we
can then reuse the code and speed things up.

This is a sample of a forum written using PhpBaseClasses
http://phpbaseclasses.sourceforge.net/sample.phps


About working together..=20
J=E1n made a picture of how he sees the future of both project when
working together : http://phpbaseclasses.sourceforge.net/dotphp.png

I am trying to get a local school to start using and teaching
PhpBaseClasses .. and if dotPHP, webcomp and PhpBaseClasses and perhaps
other libraries could become united or at least unitable .. then I think
we will make a very great set of libraries that will be used on a large,
very large, scale someday. IMHO the one thing that PHP is missing is
largescale code reusability. I also think that PHP should start
supporting stuff like JavaBeans, CORBA, Bonobo, COM+ (it already
supports COM I think? or am I wrong here) and other distributed
component environments. But that, is another discussion.. unless, of
course, we could add support for these to PHP (yes, I am serious about
this). Note that some people are working on a managed PHP.NET for usage
with Mono... which sounds like an interesting project/implementation.



--=20
Philip Van Hoof <spa...@fr...>