Hi, Just to introduce myself, I'm Henri Bergius, one of the core developers of the Midgard framework. Midgard is one of the oldest open source web frameworks / CMSs for PHP. Midgard is a bit unique that in addition to the actual web layer written in PHP we have a content repository[1] that our system uses for all persistent data storage written in C (well, Vala in the next iteration, but C is what Vala anyway generates), with PHP-level access coming from a specific extension. Midgard has always focused on clean URLs, flexible templating, valid mark-up, integration with third party web services and high level of security.
Personally I've been frustrated for a long time with the lack of a generic PHP ecosystem. As PEAR has largely stagnated, almost all interesting library and tool work happens either in complete isolation or within more specific ecosystems like Drupal, ZF, Midgard etc. I see the introduction of Zeta Components into Apache as a promising development that might be the beginning of a generic PHP code-sharing ecosystem[2]. As such, this is an area that both myself, and the Midgard Project in general should be interested in. So, how to get started? I guess the main thing is to get familiar with the existing Zeta Components, and then to start thinking of what of those we could use within our framework, and what parts of our framework could be contributed back to Zeta. Some low-hanging fruit could include: * Geolocation library: https://github.com/bergie/midgardmvc_helper_location * Our MVC framework: https://github.com/midgardproject/midgardmvc_core * Midgard provider for the Zeta Database layer * Midgard provider for the Zeta authentication layer * Maybe Alexey's PHP Application Server: https://github.com/indeyets/appserver-in-php If collaboration on some of these would sound good, I'll be happy to start the discussion in the Midgard end of things. 1: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/what_is_a_content_repository/ 2: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/php-finally_getting_an_ecosystem/ -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle Adventures and Free Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Skype: henribergius Jabber: henri.berg...@gmail.com Microblog: http://www.qaiku.com/home/bergie/
