I have toyed with the best way to do that. I have built a forum for
people to discuss the issues of witango porting to php, and a place to
view code snippets and frameworks we have built. But its purely a
volunteer thing, and so hard to find the time.
I have been thinking about it more, and I think the best thing to help
the community may be just to release some code out there, and let you
figure it out.
When I started my move to PHP, I picked a smaller site, but filled
with complexity. http://www.binder-usa.com/ It is not large but has a
lot of complex stuff for a small site. I created a framework for
things like domain variables and stuff, and also had to build a
framework for dealing with arrays. Witango 2 php is difficult, unless
you build a way to get results sets in php, that you handle like you
did in witango, then you can just do a lot of straight porting. So if
you have 2 dimensional arrays in php, like you do all the time
(resultsets) in witango, it gets much easier. But then, how do you
<@filter, or any other type of tag in witango, in php, so I built lots
of functions in php, that mimic things like @filter. You would be
surprised how much faster they are also.
After I did this one site, I made the framework generic, and gave to
other developers working for me to port other more complex witango
sites, like eventpix.com. During this, the framework, and functions
have been improved upon, especially by Ben Johansen, who has worked
for me for the last 2 years or so.
All that to say, I am thinking of putting up the binder witango code,
and the php port of it, available to download. But it would require
the commitment of Ben also to support people on the forum that needed
help with it, or updated functions. If Ben is willing, I think I can
probably have this up for people within a month. I would really only
take a coupe of days, but I say a month, because I am busy.
If you are interested in this, let me know. Also, Ben would have to
commit to helping others voluntarily, because I don't think I could do
by myself.
--
Robert Garcia
President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/
On Jan 25, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Kent Swisher wrote:
To Robert Garcia
I have started developing in PHP but find it very slow to develop
compared to witango. The old witango builder wizard worked for 80%
of our stuff and I really miss it in PHP.
Did you ever publish your white paper on how to convert witango to
Zend PHP? Would you consider sharing some of your custom
functions? Do you use Zend Framework in your projects now?
-> Kent Swisher Engineering Tools
-> Alcatel-Lucent Application Support Engineer
-> Wireline Access Products [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-> Petaluma, CA 707-792-7116 (on net 2-855-7116)
On 1/25/2008 1:31 PM, Robert Garcia wrote:
Thats not a good sign.
Present. Still have 2 large clients on witango, one is already
being ported to Zend/PHP, the other looks like it will go this year.
The thing is, even if witango gets v6 out the door, it has become
SO FAR BEHIND when it comes to features and reliability. Then
couple that with the fact that is extremely expensive, it doesn't
take a genius to figure that one out. I can't imagine anyone in
their right mind picking witango as a new dev platform, unless they
have a client or legacy app to support.
> --
>
> Robert Garcia
> President - BigHead Technology
> VP Application Development - eventpix.com
> 13653 West Park Dr
> Magalia, Ca 95954
> ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/
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