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I always sayd that one of my aims was to develop an “important” framework to make PHP work like Ruby On Rails. The first alpha/unstable/use-at-your-own-risk version will be probably released in the first months of 2010. You know…I have to work, so my experiments are done during my freetime (especially at night…). So if you appreciate my “second” job as a web development researcher you can contact me for a donation via PayPal. But now let’s talk about PhpOnTheRoad, my new PHP framework!
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I always wanted to develop a PHP framework similar to Ruby On Rails…so some time ago I started this project. When I started its development I wrote PHP4 compatible code, but now I think this framework should be at least PHP5 compatible. Probably a PHP 6 compatible version will be the next step after 1.0 release.

So I started writing it for PHP5 but I was never satisfied of my work, so I didn’t release the framework (early versions lack of generators,migrations and test suites) .

Now I feel a first nighty-build release of my PHP framework will come out very soon, so stay tuned.
It will be only MySQL and MySQLi compatible, full support for Postrgres, Oracle, MS-SQL and other DBMS will be added later.

Here are the System Requirements and the features I’m developing

**** SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ****
I won’t tell you about the hardware. Needed to be installed a Web Server (e.g. Apache) and PHP 5.
PHP need to come with some PEAR packages installed. First of all MDB2 and MDB2#mysql (or MDB2#mysqli).
Needless to say that MySql and MySqli extensions have to be loaded in your php.ini

**** DEVELOPED FEATURES ****
- Migrations: mysql and mysqli migrations are supported
- ActiveRecord: easy to use and smart ActiveRecord implementation started. It uses MDB2 to access database.

**** STILL ON WORK FEATURES ****
- Controllers implementation and generator
- Models generator
- Helpers (e.g. Forms auto-builder, and stuff like this)
- Engines (the way the framework rewrites URLS)
- Template Engine

Some words about the Template Engine. I think I will use Smarty as the base template engine. Please let me know if you prefer other template engines or if I should write a new one from scratch (an .rhtml complatible template engine?). Needless to say it will be the last thing I will develop, so design ideas are well accepted!!!

I’d like also know how many people are still using PHP4 and need a PHP4 compatible framework. If there are many, I will think about doing it.

Last week, I was following Software Design lessons at my university. While the professor was explaining why good design is important for building good software, I started to dream the solution of my problems. If I have to build a simple web site, what do I need? Something between Joomla and Wordpress.

I think Joomla is not so easy to manage, while Wordpress is too simple. Obviously they are 2 differents thing with diffrent purposes. I’d like to know what dow you think about creating Jangol. Should I continue? Should I stop? Does someone already did something better? Which features should Jangol include? Please Help me…

Sometimes files to be downloaded need to be protected, for example when download is available only for registered users of a website. To do this we need to make a “wrapper” script which checks if the file to be downloaded is available or not and we have to put the file in a place on our web server where they cannot be accessed through a url. But using Internet Explorer we can have some trouble to let our users download the files correctly. Now I’ll make an example using PHP as server-side scripting language.
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In my experience of web developer, I always had some trouble in testing serverside generated emails, especially for seeing what happens with the headers and general format of the message. Especially while working with Windows (you know, Internet Explorer is still widely used).

Now I’m developing a very little SMTP dummy server which will allow you to see what happens when your PHP’s mail() function (or other language equivalent) is called in your server-side scripts. I won’t say anything about the release date, ’cause I’m working on it during free time. Now it only works for my special purposes, I don’t feel it’s ready for public.

I can only say that Micro SMTP Server is being written in Java (so it is cross-platform) and it will be open-source (or almost free of charge).