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idumali at users dot sourceforge dot net
03-May-2003 02:15 |
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As a person sharing his time between J2EE (work) and PHP (personal)
development, whenever I develop in PHP I really feel the lack of several
features, so usual for Java developers:
1) Solid MVC model2
framework
2) Custom tag support (this would automatically solve the
problem of nice templating)
3) Servlet container to map definite URIs
to uri-handler php scripts easily. You can do that through .htaccess to
some extent but as PHP is a module of Apache by far and by most - I think
it could be supported MUCH better.
4) Solid database persistence layer
(something like JDO, ODMG, OQL etc.)
5) Cache management
6)
Clustering support.
7) Security framework (in the spirit of JAAS)
8)
Logging
9) There's a huge concern with the security under Unix. This is
partly address by safe_mode but then you get a castrated system. I think
the source of the problem is - all the php scripts are processed under
user "nobody". Per application assignment of which user scripts
are run with - would solve a lot of the issues, in my understanding, if it
would become possible.
Now, this is quite a long list but me and my
friends decided to put our sgare of work and have begun project Penub (PHP
Nuts and Bolts )
that tries to address the first three of the list.
At the current
stage we have addressed the question of custom tag support. Solution is
XML-based and quite nice. Servet-uri mapper is also solved in somewhat
generalised way through .htaccess (integrated solution is still much
preferred and awaited, tho - we just do not have enough resources to go
that deep). MVC model that leverages those two - is under
construction.
If anybody wants to join us in the effort, please,
leave a notice at
All
the resources/docs there are closed and for-developers-only, until we
release the first official version but if you wish to join us as a
developer and help us make it happen quicker - you are very
welcomed.
Thanks.
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