Here in the coming weeks, my company will be put onto a few month project that will require rapid development, but the flexibility to add additional functionality later on down the line (a phase 2 per-say). My first design idea fell right into a module / plugin based site. I plan to use ZFW and MVC where I can. But, the plugin architecture is something somewhat new to me. I understand the premise, but the implementation is all over the place.
The basic architecture is this site, plus a few others developed by us, will be accessing a central db of information. The main application will read this data dependent on how the other applications will read it. It's kind of hard to explain without explaining the site (which I can't do). Basically, there is a pool of information. There are several peices feed and pulling from this pool. The main piece will be reading from this pool, but how it reads this pool is dependent on these other pieces; like a filter, per say. Each piece needs to function individually. I hope I explained that well enough... I'm looking for some good sites and design patterns for handling this architecture; I'm thinking plugin based. I figure what better place to ask for the information than this list. I'm trying to research solutions different people and companies have come up with so that my colleages and I can come up with the optimal solution for our needs on this new site. The site, which I'm not allowed to talk about, is a pretty big deal. HIGH recongition (nobody outside of 3rd world countries do not know this company). It will be a HIGH target for hackers (the site we're replacing is targeted constantly and often fails -- which is why we're replacing it). In the end: it's a series deal and an optimal solution with full development needs to be done pretty quickly. Thanks! --- Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gpcentre.net/
