i'm probably the last person to comment, since i'm on and off the development track, but have a look at http://cakephp.org/ it's a development framework to ease development, something like ruby on rails. it's worth having a look at, i still haven't played with it yet though.
--- Al-Faisal El-Dajani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > Until three months ago i was working on a web > development framework called > OpenACS. One of the things i loved about it is the > extensive API they had > for building everything. Now, the PHP API is > amazing, but there are things > that sometimes i wish they had like OpenACS. For > instance with OpenACS, you > rarely wrote any HTML at all, using methods like > ad_form to build forms, or > template::list to build lists that show data with > ability to paginate (show > data on multiple pages) and to sort by column name. > Such things are not > available with PHP, because it is a scripting > language and not a development > framework. I was thinking of trying to do something > similar to PHP, because > god knows how much i hate writing forms and dropdown > lists and stuff like > that :). > > Anyway, i attached a file i wrote which should > clarify the idea. It is a > _very_ small version of what ad_form can do, but > just to get the idea > through. It contains the URL to the documentation of > ad_form and what it > does. > > My questions are: > 1) What do you think of the idea? > 2) Is it really useful to have such a thing? does it > solve/ease any current > problems? > 3) Would the Jordanian PHP community and the PHP > community at large benefit > from such a thing? > > Thanks in advance. > > PS: I already sent it to the mailing list before i > remembered that we moved > to Google groups. Apologies for the double e-mail. > > -- > Al-Faisal El-Dajani > Tel: +962-7-88 719 685 > P.O Box: 140056 > 11814 Amman, Jordan > > May the source be with you > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jordan PHP Users Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP http://Jolug.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
