New but not a Newbie

jojojobbins

Hi, just in the last day I have picked up PHP and can see it is a language that I could quite enjoy to use. I am an experienced programmer and have a background in Java/Webobjects and C/Objective-C/Cocoa.

I find Java annoying, Webobjects brilliant but becoming stagnant, and I love coding on Objective C/Cocoa on Mac OS X. I am used to OO programming and design my code in an MVC style (Model-View-Controller).

I have been reading the various functions and looking at PEAR to get a feel. I was wondering if there are any Foundation like frameworks/classes like
Apple's Cocoa foundation classes.

I know I could probably wrap a bunch of the functions into classes, but why re-invent the wheel?

Anyway, I am pretty excited starting my new life as a PHP programmer and looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

The_Terminator2

Hi and welcome to PHP 🙂

Hope you enjoy your journey, though I must say that PHP 5 does not for the moment have a library as such as what you are looking for 🙁

Not all is lost as there is a start of such a library, Standard PHP Library (SPL) already in the making. For the moment we have Iterator's.

To learn more about SPL and what it means to PHP development, have a look at the Site Point article by Harry Feucks at www.sitepoint.com where you can learn more 🙂

jojojobbins

Hi thanks for that.

I have started looking at Harry Feucks blog. He has some good discussion going on there.

Curiously, is there anything else like SPL going on?

Would the PHP community be interested in cocoa like foundation classes? I think cocoa like classes would fit in very nicely with the PHP language.

The_Terminator2

Curiously, is there anything else like SPL going on?

Bar what is being planned, according to the Sitepoint article, nothing more of what I have learnt.

In saying that though, there is a new wiki set up recently that addresses this issue, including design patterns.

Sorry I don't have a link for you but looking at Harry's blog you will find the link - I forgot to bookmark it 🙁

planetsim

Hi welcome to the forums. You'll probably get a better entrance if this was in the Echo Lounge :p but its all ok.. nice to see another aussie on the board 😃