If you haven't already, you should look at Rails Engines for inspiration. http://rails-engines.org/
Clearly, there's a need for reusable drop-in modules, and with 1.8 it looks like the infrastructure finally exists (more or less) to move in that direction. -Matt On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mon Zafra <[email protected]> wrote: > Something that I think ZF really needs are pre-built modules which > immediately work when dropped into an application. It's near impossible to > do before since there's no guarantee that a ZF project follows the > recommended structure. I ported my CRUD module from another project to > Zend_Application with the goal of making it work in any Zend_Tool-created > project with minimal fuss. > > svn co http://mz-project.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/modules/crud > > The resulting directory should be copied into the application/modules > directory. As long as the modules resource plugin is enabled and a default > Zend_Db_Table adapter is set, it should just work. The pages would be > unstyled though since nothing is added to the public directory. I made > another module that simulates serving of public resources from inside module > directories: > > svn co http://mz-project.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/modules/modules > > I wonder if there's any interest in these things? I started making an > auth+ACL module but I kinda gave up since it's really hard to make it > generic. If there's any interest perhaps I could start it over again. > > > -- Mon >
