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PHPlus - Rapid Web Application Development Framework
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 3:05 pm
by wolfie2x
PHPlus is an open source project to help PHP developers and designers make web application development faster and painless.
The goal of this project is to develop a platform which will clearly seperate the web interface & application logic. (similar to Enhydra for Java)
Our approach to PHP is completely object oriented and targets PHP 5.
We also have a powerful IDE which integrates the framework support. (debugging facility is yet to be added though

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a fully functional release is available for download.
PHPlus home page:
http://phplus.sourceforge.net/
we greatly value the php community opinion on our framework.
feel free to discuss anything on PHPlus with us, here, through email, or on our sourceforge forum.
Long Live the Open Source Effort !
Sampath Tilakumara. (University of Moratuwa - Sri Lanka)
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:27 pm
by Gen-ik
I'm a bit confused (forgive me) about the whole PHPlus thing. Is it aimed at programmers or designers?
To be honest the impression I have got from reading about it is that it's aimed at people who don't know very much about PHP... a bit like a PHP version of DreamWeaver.
If people start raving about it though then I might take another look at it but for now I'm going to be sticking with coding and designing my PHP based websites by hand.
Others may feel differently about it though.
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:34 pm
by lazy_yogi
Sounds alot like zope (but made in php instead of python).
Zope is an excellent product very very similar to what you're describing!
If yours is along this lines ... good stuff!
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 12:19 pm
by wolfie2x
PHPlus simply seperates the work of designers & developers; designer doesn't need to worry about PHP code, and could work on the esthetics, while the application developer can concentrate on the business logic and the dynamic content on the site;
so both parties can work parallely without stepping on each others toes.
large web portals with several hundred pages need to be extensible & maintainable; the current way of mixing html with php is not very good for this. that's where PHPlus helps. it enables the programmer to manipulate a html page without putting php code in it!
it is not a sugar coating on php to help newbies. it's a concept to eliminate the spaghetti code style of php codes in html pages so that pure OOP can be used.
The IDE provided by PHPlus is to ease the management & deployment of sites which are developed on the framework. btw it's a pretty good one with features such as autocompletion, context help etc.
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 1:01 pm
by Gen-ik
wolfie2x wrote:PHPlus simply seperates the work of designers & developers; designer doesn't need to worry about PHP code, and could work on the esthetics, while the application developer can concentrate on the business logic and the dynamic content on the site;
so both parties can work parallely without stepping on each others toes.
Ok I understand that, but any well developed website which uses PHP for it's 'content management system' does what you say already. It's simply a matter of taking a bit of time planning the site structure before diving into the designing and coding.
There are also a lot of people out there who design and code websites single handed (like myself) so PHPlus wouldn't make much of a difference to how we work and develop a site.
I guess PHPlus will be useful for some, and not very useful for others... a bit like the dreaded DreamWeaver.
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 3:00 pm
by McGruff
I wonder if it's too soon to use php5 for a project like this which is presumably aimed at a wide audience? Most shared hosts won't offer php5.
Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2003 12:14 pm
by wolfie2x
McGruff wrote:I wonder if it's too soon to use php5 for a project like this which is presumably aimed at a wide audience? Most shared hosts won't offer php5.
true; we are already considering to put out a version for php4, so that more ppl can try it. but it'll take about 2 months since all 4 developers of PHPlus are stuck with some exams.

however php5 is developing pretty fast.. beta 3 is out as well, which is a good sign.