On 7/14/2010 12:05 AM, Mike A wrote:
On 13/07/2010 22:44, Jonathon Suggs wrote:
Would the community find benefit in having a repository of commonly
used models/entities?
The classes would all just be plain php classes with Doctrine2
annotations (and unit tests). I understand that use cases will vary
between projects but the classes could always be extended and
overridden.
Subsequently, the classes could be used to create pluggable modules.
I'm thinking that it would be a nice feature for the framework to be
able to add in a blog or forum (or whatever) module that could be part
of your codebase, but without requiring too much developer
customizations (unless wanted).
I realize this is somewhat of a vague and ambitious request, but if
there is interest I'd like to get some ideas for defining requirements
and use cases. I guess my only two initial requirements/constraints
are Zend Framework (target ZF2) and Doctrine2. I also would expect
for the development to happen outside of the official project but
would (obviously) work closely with all projects involved.
I am writing a ZF book named ModJewelz at the moment. An ongoing work
it will eventually become a huge reference. The idea of it is not only
to act as a guide to building modular ZF systems but as a reference
for modules, plugins and helpers built, tested and available in a
central repository after being subjected to scrutiny by the community.
To give an idea about the depth of reference, the chapter on building
a common foundation template as a basis for modular systems already
runs to about 70 pages.
So yes, I think the idea is good, but only for tested components
capable of interfacing with common templates. Otherwise the repository
could become saturated and obfusated by poorly written components - as
with other CMS and frameworks.
Sounds like a great book, but I do not see why we have to have to put
limitations on it. The community can filter these components on their
own. As long as users can rate the components you can let the people
choose what they want.
