http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/ 2008-12-09T18:37:32+01:00 http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/ http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-12-09T13:23:05+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@65.4.142.114) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/start?do=diff1228846985 A descriptive framework based on a very broad meaning of the word document and the ability to create a backbone for each web project on which to hang any number of web applications. Ismo 0.1.4 was released on June 14, 2004 and has some striking sim... text/html 2008-11-14T15:32:47+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@66.187.176.50) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/internally_restful_framework_psuedo_code?do=diff1226694767 Internally RESTful framework psuedo code       ... text/html 2008-11-14T15:29:22+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@66.187.176.50) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/phpworks2008_thoughts?do=diff1226694562 Per ramsey’s idea of Reflection + Docblock (from Project Zero): RESTdoc Internally RESTful framework Psuedo code elazar ramsey ... text/html 2008-11-14T15:08:55+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@66.187.176.50) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/ideas/rest_focus?do=diff1226693335 REST (Representational State Transfer) in PHP is still in its infancy, and to my knowledge there are no PHP frameworks that make working with REST easy. I’d like to see Ismo be able to handle REST concepts (the very basics are already there) n... text/html 2008-04-03T09:33:07+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@74.239.186.50) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/docs/database_access?do=diff1207229587 Ismo does not have it’s own database access layer. Since there are so many options already available, we’ve decided to leave that up to others. We recommend using a DAO/ORM database package if possible. Some we recommend are... PEAR::D... text/html 2008-02-15T12:48:48+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@74.239.186.50) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/url_management?do=diff1203097728 Extending Joakim’s current delegation system to add some new flexibility. The goal is for developers to have complete control over the URL so they can make them as meaningful as possible. The best PHP routing system we’ve found so far i... text/html 2006-07-12T19:51:58+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@71.12.21.134) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/ideas/document_objects?do=diff1152748318 There should be an object for each standard the developers want to implement. Suggested Document Objects: RSS Atom DocBook OpenDocument SyncML OPML FOAF YAML iCalendar/vCalendar and just about any other structured document that could be ... text/html 2006-02-16T12:23:46+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@72.155.172.12) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/docs/installation?do=diff1140110626 Ismo_Core requires PHP 4.1.0 or later. Although it’s recommend that either 4.2.x or 4.3.x is used. Also the following PEAR package are needed: Date version >= 1.3 HTTP version >= 1.2 [mandatory] Log version >= 1.6.0 PEAR vers... text/html 2005-10-15T16:41:01+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@71.12.21.134) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/ideas/internal_uri_s?do=diff1129408861 To do this in PHP we’d need to use the stream_wrapper_registration() function and write our own classes. ... text/html 2005-09-07T10:25:54+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@65.23.110.149) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/ideas/objects/documents?do=diff1126103154 A Document in concept is a collection of data. The Document object access it’s data through one or more Model objects. The object can then be used to output that data through various templates or send it’s data to an Action for processin... text/html 2005-09-01T19:57:08+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@71.14.112.108) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/ideas/objects/driver?do=diff1125619028 A Driver object is used in conjunction with the Model object. Each driver represents a different way of accessing data. Some drivers will represent different RDBMS’s. Others will be used for things like RSS or Atom feeds. ... text/html 2005-09-01T19:54:16+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@71.14.112.108) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/ideas/objects/model?do=diff1125618856 The Model object comes from the popular MVC pattern. A model is used to access data directly, often from a database and sometimes via “getters” and “setters.” Models in Ismo will be used to access all types of data: database... text/html 2005-07-25T13:44:14+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@71.12.21.134) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/ideas/modules?do=diff1122313454 The current version of Ismo consists of Ismo Core. This package (which is installable via PEAR) handles the core pieces of the framework: Dispatching, etc. Modules will be packages (installable via PEAR) that will be able to be used with Ismo and po... text/html 2005-07-07T21:26:17+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@24.177.224.31) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/nativeformdata?do=diff1120785977 Another goal is to use information in it’s native form where ever possible. Models and forms in many frameworks are built by hand (with the exception of the venerable Rails and the youthful Cake) and often duplicate the information that’... text/html 2005-07-07T21:23:25+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@24.177.224.31) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/simplest_route_to_output?do=diff1120785805 Similar to the delegation system, but including things like quick modeling and form building. Some ideas will be drawn from Cocoon sitemaps. Their request to output mapping seems very clean. ... text/html 2005-07-01T08:33:08+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@24.177.224.31) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/ideas/perspectives?do=diff1120221188 Perspective: a group of views comprising a general interface to the application (ex: HTML, XUL, SOAP?). Think of them as different ways to get to the same application. ... text/html 2005-06-18T19:51:22+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@65.4.190.104) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/docs/download?do=diff1119138682 Download Ismo from SourceForge. PEAR installer It is also possible to install Ismo using the PEAR installer. More information soon (it’s currently available in the download). ... text/html 2005-06-18T19:46:03+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@65.4.190.104) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/docs/pear?do=diff1119138363 The Ismo framework tries to avoid wheel reinvention whenever possible. For this reason you’ll find a number of PEAR objects in the download. ... text/html 2005-06-17T19:32:36+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@24.177.224.31) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/docs/getting_started?do=diff1119051156 Ok, so let’s create our first application using Ismo_Core! We’ll use a directory in the webroot of a web server. If the webroot for the server running on foo.bar is a /var/www/html we’ll put this small application in a sub directo... text/html 2005-06-15T12:11:56+01:00 Benjamin Young (theideaman@24.177.224.31) http://ismo.bigbluehat.com/docs/file_loaders?do=diff1118851916 The idea is that files are not loaded from some specially defined path using include() or require(). Instead a loader is used to load the needed files, and the loader knows from where to load the files. This way one can change from loading all the ...