Lydia, a PHP-based, MVC-inspired CMF

This project is used while teaching advanced PHP-programming with Model View Controller (MVC) frameworks with a taste of Content Management Framework (CMF).

Material below is mainly in swedish.

• http://dbwebb.se/lydia/current (try out the code)
• http://dbwebb.se/f/123 (forum with some tutorials on how the code was built, only in swedish)

History

Todo.

• Yes, a lot of things to do.

v0.2.10 (2012-03-29)

• Created a sequence to create a new user user/create using the web as userinterface.
• Corrected: CreateUrl in CCobject did not return its result.

v0.2.09 (2012-03-28)

• Added server-side form validation to CForm.

v0.2.08 (2012-03-28)

• Changed name of database class from CMDatabase to CDatabase.
• Added hashing techniques for storing password. plain, md5, sha1, md5salt, sha1salt.
• Made sha1salt the default algorithm when storing passwords.

v0.2.07 (2012-03-27)

• Integrated with gravatar.com and created theme function to get the gravatar link.

v0.2.06 (2012-03-25)

• Added classes for CForm, CFormElement, CFormElementText, CFormElementPassword, CFormElementSubmit
• Made CForm use CFormElement and both implements ArrayAccess.
• User can save profile on user/profile.
• CMUser uses implements ArrayAccess.

v0.2.05 (2012-03-21)

• Corrected: Handling of incoming urls based on ?q=controller/metod and index.php/controller/metod.
• Added utility class CForm for form handling.
• Added login-form on user/login.

v0.2.04 (2012-03-19)

• Used Reflection API to show the available controllers and methods using the index controller.

v0.2.03 (2012-03-19)

• Made CMUser a part of CLydia and CObject.
• Created theme function login_menu().
• Created controller CCUserControlPanel.

v0.2.02 (2012-03-15)

• Uppgraded CMUser with groups and group-membership for each user.

v0.2.01 (2012-03-15)

• Added CMUser and CCUser to handle users. Created code for testing login and logout of user.
• Added inteface convenience methods RedirectToController and RedirectToControllerMethod in CObject.

v0.1.9 (2012-03-13)

• Added CMGuestbook as a model for the sample guestbook application.
• Rewrote code and separated between guestbook controller and model.

v0.1.8 (2012-03-05)

• Added CSession as a wrapper to $_SESSION.
• Enabled flashmemory in CSession for as a memory to live through pagerequests, useful to send feedback to users and showing debuginfo to the developer.
• Updated Guestbook to make use of the new features.

v0.1.7 (2012-02-24)

• Added a container for the views CViewContainer.
• Integrated CViewContainer in CCGuestbook, CLydia, CObject, and the theme handling.
• This makes $ly->data obsolete and to be removed in coming releases.

v0.1.6 (2012-02-24)

• Added interface to those classes that uses SQL, IUseSQL.
• Updated CCGuestbook to use IUseSQL.

v0.1.5 (2012-02-24)

• Introduced the database layer as CMDatabase.
• Showed how to use it in the CCGuestbook controller example.
• Enabled debug output from the database operations using settings in config-file and theme-helper get_debug().
• Created a default exception handler in bootstrap.php.
• CLydia creates and owns the databaseobject as $ly->db.
• CObject makes the database object available for subclasses through $this->db.

v0.1.4 (2012-02-23)

• Improved guestbook example to store messages in database using PHP PDO and SQLite.
• Added konfigurationsitem fpr database in site/config.php.
• Added site/data directory which should be writable bu the webserver.

v0.1.3 (2012-02-15)

• Added some style and an icon the the core theme.
• Added a guestbook application as an example of a controller using database and forms.
• The guestbook is fully working and stores entries in the session.
• Cope with querystring sent to controller and methods.
• Added theme helper theme_url($url) which prepends $url with the url to the theme directory.
• Added session_start() in CLydia.
• Use default timezone as defined in site/config.php, set in CLydia::__construct()

v0.1.2 (2012-02-15)

• One common baseclass for controllers and modules, CObject, holds access to CLydia through $this->
• Output from theme helper get_debug() is configurable in site/config.php.
• Wrapper htmlent() for htmlentities() to support character encoding from site/config.php.
• Remove all - and _ from the url before checking if method exists. Enables developer/display-object and developer/display_object to point to developer/displayobject.

v0.1.1 (2012-02-14) v0.1.0 (2012-02-14)

• All requests handled by index.php and using mod_rewrite in .htaccess.
• A base structure with bootstrap.php, frontcontroller and theme engine.
• Frontcontroller CLydia::FronControllerRoute() supporting varius url-constructs.
• A basic theme controller, CLydia::ThemeEngineRender(), with functions.php, style.css and template files.
• Managing base_url and introducing theme helper functions.
• 'CRequest' manages creation of internal links.

v0.01 - v0.03 (2011 december)

• This was the first release used in a course called dbwebb2.

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..: Copyright 2011 by Mikael Roos (me@mikaelroos.se)