Lennart, 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 in below links are mainly in swedish.

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

License

Lennart is licenses according to MIT-license. Any included external modules are subject to their own licensing.

Use of external libraries

Lennart uses external libraries for state of the art samples. Any external module can be replaced or removed for less features but without disturbing the Lennart core functionality.

The following external modules are included in Lennart.

HTMLPurifier

HTMLPurifier by Edward Z. Yang to filter & format HTML. Website: http://htmlpurifier.org/ Version: 4.4.0 (2012-01-18) License: LGPL Lennart path: src/CHTMLPurifier Used by: CMContent

lessphp

lessphp by leaf to compile LESS. Website: http://leafo.net/lessphp Version: 0.3.4-2 (2012-04-17) License: Dual license, MIT LICENSE and GPL VERSION 3 Lennart path: themes/grid/lessphp Used by: themes/grid/style.php

The Semantic Grid System

by Tyler Tate/TwigKit to get grid layout through LESS. Website: http://semantic.gs/ Version: 1.2 (2012-01-11) License: Apache License Lennart path: themes/grid/semantic.gs Used by: themes/grid/style.less.css

History

Todo.

• Yes, a lot of things to do. No need to specify them, to many on the list... Wait until there is a stable version of Lennart.

v0.2.24 (2012-05-07)

• Updating CMModules and CCModules to display information on a module's main class using Reflection API.

v0.2.23 (2012-05-07)

• Creating menues through site/config.php.
• Mapping menus to theme regions.
• Child theme in site/themes.
• Site specific controllers/models/modules in site/src.
• Sample website in site.
• Added delete of content.

v0.2.22 (2012-05-02)

• Enhanced installation procedure by adding one controller for installation, module/install.
• Added interface IModule for all modules to implement that can manage themself for install/update/delete.

v0.2.21 (2012-05-02)

• Added module management through CMModules and CCModules.

v0.2.20 (2012-04-23)

• Moved static data from themes/grid/functions.php to site/config.php.
• Added themes/functions.php get_tools() for a list of useful debug tools.

v0.2.19 (2012-04-23)

• Added typography matching vertical grid to theme/grid.
• Added reset.css.

v0.2.18 (2012-04-23)

• Updated CViewContainer and related items to map views to regions in theme.

v0.2.17 (2012-04-23)

• Integrated with semantic.gs though the new theme theme/grid.
• Included sematic.gs version 1.2 (2012-01-11).

v0.2.16 (2012-04-19)

• Integrated with lessphp version 0.3.4-2 (2012-04-17) and LESS though a new theme, theme/grid.

v0.2.15 (2012-04-16)

• Added filter to format CMContent as 'htmlpurify' using http://htmlpurifier.org/.
• Added external library htmlpurifier-4.4.0-standalone in wrapper CHTMLPurifier.
• Added LICENSE.txt as MIT-license.

v0.2.14 (2012-04-16)

• Added filter to format MCContent as 'bbcode'.
• Added function bbcode2html() in src/bootstrap.php.

v0.2.13 (2012-04-13)

• Added filter to format CMContet as 'plain', 'html' and 'php'. 'html' and 'php' is disabled in CMContent as default.
• Added function makeClickable() in src/bootstrap.php which formats links in text to .

v0.2.12 (2012-04-13)

• Added CCBlog to display all content of type 'post' in a blog-like list.
• Added CCPage to display content of type 'page' in a singel-page view.
• Added formatting of DateTime since using function formatDateTimeDiff() and theme helper time_diff().
• Lennart always set timezone to UTC. All time values stored in database is in UTC.

v0.2.11 (2012-04-11)

• Added handling for content with CMContent and CCContent.

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 CLennart 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, CLennart, CObject, and the theme handling.
• This makes $le->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.
• CLennart creates and owns the databaseobject as $le->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 CLennart.
• Use default timezone as defined in site/config.php, set in CLennart::__construct()

v0.1.2 (2012-02-15)

• One common baseclass for controllers and modules, CObject, holds access to CLennart 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 CLennart::FronControllerRoute() supporting varius url-constructs.
• A basic theme controller, CLennart::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)