Implicit Evaluation with PHP Archives: Fortitude
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28 March 2007
Fortitude is Dead
This morning, I learned of Delphi for PHP. It looks like the PHP.net language I’ve always wanted. Short of the System.* Namespace, it seems to be a .net clone. It has the interface I hoped to develop to front-end Fortitude. It has a framework which is close enough. This is the future of PHP development.
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8 February 2007
Managing Variable Scopes While Using Templates
PHP’s rules for variable’s scopes can make coding complex templates difficult. Today, I’ll show you several methods to make it easier.
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31 October 2006
Modifying Recursive Data Structures in PHP
I’ve been working on code to allow pure HTML pages to be used as the source code of templates. Compiling this HTML mandates the use of a recursive data structure to form a tree of HTML tags and to preserve the textual content of the page. It’s reasonably easy to do in PHP5 because of […]
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30 October 2006
Fortitude Forms II: The Form Comes Around
I got an interesting bit of code started in Fortitude this weekend. To understand it, let’s start first with the usual dev-cycle of a Fortitude app:
Create a Model class
Create a Form class
Create a form handling action
Create a View/FormView file
What’s annoying while doing this is that so many fields are seemingly replicated on each step. I […]
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20 October 2006
An Online WYSIWYG Form Editor
Today, I was reading a highly dugg article in Smashing Magazine called List of CSS Tools. It was an interesting collection of links for design and building web applications. But one link in particular stood out: JotForm. This is the kind of designer Fortitude needs. In one of Fortitude’s predeccesors, I had built a designer […]
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19 October 2006
Fortitude Forms Need A Handler Action
One thing which bothers me about how Fortitude Forms operates is that it needs an action. The reason for this is simple:
Fortitude has a controller, and a controller must delegate logic somewhere
The HTML form needs somewhere to submit
But what’s unfortunate is that all the updating logic is buried in Fortitude’s controls. Any validation can only […]
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18 September 2006
A Viewstate for PHP
One of ASP.net’s most attractive features is the viewstate. It is a convienent way to store arbitrary data in a persistent mechanism. In fact, it’s rather like PHP’s $_SESSION array.
There is, however, one difference. $_SESSION is unique to a user but is reused across pages. With only one window to your website, the two preform […]
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17 August 2006
Using HTML as a Template
There are roughly three ways I can think of offhand to do templating in PHP.
HTML Tags with PHP to populate values
PHP Functions to generate tags including values
Special markup to do one or more of the above
There are relatively concrete examples of each. Any new programer, and even some experienced programmers use method 1. Indications of […]
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26 July 2006
On Competing Application Models
Within MVCs, the model (data layer) perhaps gives the most trouble while conceptualizing. At a basic level, it’s acutally OK: A model is just a place to store data. But as a developer adds more patterns and buzzwords to the application, it becomes harrier. Is a model just the conveient way to access database records? […]
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21 July 2006
Fortitude
I’ve released a slightly dated revision of Fortitude. There is a single sample modules in there out of an Application I’m writing which is implemented in Fortitude. So you WILL see welcome.php and the Welcome module, however, there is code in there which refers to ide, and ide is not bundled in. So, tragically, you […]