Archive for June 10th, 2006

H3rald.com: Akelos Framework - too good to be true?

PHP Developer - June 10th, 2006

Over on H3rald.com today, there’s their look at a new player in the PHP “inspired by Rails” framework category - and they’re pretty impressed.


Someone recently added a comment to my article about Rails-inspired PHP frameworks pointing out that I forgot another Rails-like framework, in my round-up. He obviously posted a link to this rather mysterious Rails port in PHP and spam or not, I’d like to thank this guy for letting me know of the existance of Akelos, a new PHP framework which seems simply too good to be true.

He goes on, describing first some of the features the framework provides (tranasctions, code generation, template compilers, etc). There’s also a list of other “goodies” specific to Akelos, including unit-tested source code, pure PHP support for Unicode, and distributed sessions using databases.

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Zend Developer Zone: This Week in the Zend Framework - Issue #10

PHP Developer - June 10th, 2006

The Zend Developer Zone has posted their latest summary for all things Zend Framework for this past week - issue #10.

Some of the items mentioned this week include:

  • z proposal for Zend_Application_Context
  • an update from Jayson about the status of the framework
  • a discussion on the attachments options for Zend_Mail
  • the announcement of a new “Announcements list” (subscribe)
  • an inquiry about the work being done on Zend_Auth
  • and another update from Jayson mentioning the upcoming (soon) release of version 0.14 of the framework.

Of course, there was much more happening this week than just the above list, so head over to the full article for the whole story.

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PHPit.net: An introduction to Test Driven Development with PHP

PHP Developer - June 10th, 2006

PHPit.net has posted yet another PHP-related tutorial, this time with a focus on test driven development.

There are several different ways of developing something. Most of us tend to simply start with a script, and gradually move along. Perhaps we’ve even laid out our script before hand, but we tend to stay at the developing phase, and don’t really start testing when it’s necessary. Basically, we develop first, and test later.

But this might not be the best way, and might lead to problems later. That’s why some developers advocate a different way of developing called Test Driven Development (TDD), where by you test first, and develop later.

He uses the SimpleTest frameork to illustrate his points. He starts off with a simple example - settin g up the framework and creating a class to test a class, Biter. The testing class first just looks to see if the Biter class exists, failing before they create the class file it’s looking for. With the help of a bit more code and a few more test examples, you get a good jumping off point for creating your own tests to evaluate your code.

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