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What are your thoughts on WACT?

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:37 pm
by MrPotatoes
i've just about finished the biggest parts of my framework. i'm about to finish putting in the other things that i've developed in component form (member auth/permissions system/error-logger etc). and then i plan to integrate it all so that i have a base application to tool around with.

i started to write my own as a learning experiance and also because nothing else was doing what i wanted even though i had the docs already to prove it (hoenstly, where did i put those? i'm working off of memory here!) but i researched for a good 3 weeks to a month before deciding on doing my own.

well, i remember wact being one of those (mohavi too but then are apparently defunt) and i like alot of the things that they do in here. i planned to take a few things from it and see how they work and possibly take those ideas and impliment those. but i wanted to know if anyone has used it before and what they thought of it. i especially like it's forms handling and a little of it's error handling. the controllers scare me because they are all over the place but other than that

oh, he also went a little nutzo on the HTML parser. i don't quite think that was needed....lol

any thoughts?

also, if this is in the wrong area then place move it :D

Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:33 am
by Christopher
I think your take on WACT is about right. The core of the thing was really its .NET style template library and views. Everything else was built around that -- hence the "nutzo" feeling. But I think a lot of water has gone under the bridge since any work was done on WACT, plus it was PHP4 framework.

Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 3:16 am
by Jenk
I designed my own simply to get a better grasp on OOD, I highly recommend it for anyone who is still unsure about the aspects of OOD/P and believe me when I say be prepared for some reworking..

I used Zend for a project to get an idea of what a Framework should do, then went off and started my own from scratch. After I finished it, of course it has starking similarities to Zend, but with my own flavor and of course, that is what counts - your framework, your flavor/style/touch :)