Hello everyone and thanks for the reminder Marcus,

This is just a follow up of what I posted earlier in this thread.

Instead of submitting my HyperWiki project, instead, I submitted one that was originally intended to be used with HyperWiki for a agnostic database layer (ADatabase) that attempts to provide a db portability layer for connecting and issuing statements to a RDBMS that focuses on a minimal interface (leaving room for additional extensions) and will either translate or emulate a subset of standard ISO SQL statements.

Since this project will only support PHP5.1 and up, it differs from current projects like ADOdb, Creole and MDB2 since there will not be any PHP4 legacy support/code or the resulting large and loosely cohesive classes, or error checking functions (I believe exceptions supersede these).

The project itself is only a small set of interfaces that can be extended to create other abstraction layers that are compatible with ADatabase so any project already using ADatabase can easily switch to a other systems with minimal code modifications. The main work in the project will be to develop the drivers which is initially planned to be MySQL, SQLite, PgSQL and MSSql.



Even though the application has already been submitted, I would appreciate any comments or suggestions about this project.


Regards,

David Duong
Marcus Boerger wrote:
Hello David,

  remember that the deadline for submitting projects is monday.

best regards
marcus

Saturday, March 24, 2007, 7:22:14 PM, you wrote:

Hello php.internals,

I saw the Summer of Code article on php.net and am contacting this group to hopefully gain the interest of possible mentors for an open source project that has been rolling around the back of my mind.

The idea I am proposing I call HyperWiki since it is a hypertext distribution system, built with PHP5. It is based off the idea of Hyperbases (I couldn't find something outside of an assignment specification for a software architecture course to reference it with) and structureless content management systems (the "wiki" part).

The project's goal is to provide a system that:
1. Provides a minimal CMS (called a "gateway") where structure (what/how content is stored, user permissions, etc.) can be declared by the administrator who may not even know PHP. Administrators can find controllers from either this project or third-part to provide the gateway's functionality. Only XHTML with elements and data relevant to request, i.e. no design, header, sideblocks or footer will be transmitted.
Note: except when XSL is not supported by the client
2. When a user makes a search request, the gateway provides the search results as well as a list of other linked systems that the user can search concurrently. Or, at least, the gateway can search linked systems and return aggregated results. Users can add/edit/delete entries on systems beside the one they use as a "gateway", and regardless of whichever system the user gets the results from, the "gateway" provides the presentation logic (XSL), so the user should not even be aware of the idea of "gateways" and linked systems.

An example of the data-only XHTML in my proposal is demonstrated at my website: http://www.forizon.com where pages are transmitted without any extraneous presentation elements, but they link to a XSLT file that provide all the presentation logic. I have implemented parts of the gateway software, and I hope to finish it and have some means to seamlessly connect the gateways.

Hopefully, this is the right mentoring organization to apply to. Although it doesn't add to the PHP project itself, except to be a test case itself for PHP5 and possibly PHP6.

I should end the email here, but I'll provide a schedule, progress indicators, bio, etc in the Google SoC application.

Regards,

David Duong

btw - I have sent an email earlier to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but apparently that is not the right address so I apologize if this is a duplicate message.




Best regards,
 Marcus

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