Cabbits free for all.

jerry_louise

Ok for anyone interested my Cabbit Framework is free for all here, there have been a few lovely folks i have met over the last year that have donated code and such which i have rewritten and cobbled together.

This is intended as a preview only and is under heavy development.
I would love to hear of any bug fixes, suggestions, comments, critics, other 3rd party classes you have to donate.

The process of donating a 3rd party class is that if it becomes a library class it has the heading like the rest with a optional source_licence_endorcement_thanks.txt file in the folder to attribute work.

The framework base started out as a tutorial that is no longer in my bookmarks so once i find it i would like to put in a link.

There are some things i would love to know how to do like writing a error log file. So if you have any links to helpful tutorials please post them here.

Also my old college lecturer is guiding me though the process of writing a generator script with the UNIX Bourne Shell so that will be interesting.

And i am in the middle of shoe horning in Jacques Fuentes Active Record class at the moment for the models, well i have not even started yet it looks kinda daunting.

One of the important processes i go with when a 3rd party class is offered is to assimilate, evaluate, then rewrite to understand it fully, this is still a learning project primarily and i am hoping to learn as much as i can from both the code i write and that others provide.

halojoy

Maybe you should have posted in the forum for Critique.

Interesting.
I have downloaded your Cabbit 1.1 alpha
Will try it later. I am cooking my daily food now. In my kitchen.
As we noted, this is an alpha version
Alphas, they can often be improved and even have few bugs.
Beta version is eventual next step, if you want to develop further.

I be back within a couple of days and tell you what I think.
Thanks for the download 🙂
/halojoy

jerry_louise

Thanks for the beta my goal is everything must work. Most of the code needs rewritten and attributed were necessary, and i need to comment and document everything.

I would post in the critic forum but i think i am still very much a newbie, or maybe a in between. I am able to hobble stuff together with a load of planning but not yet able to see problems before there problems like my old lecturer could do.

The goal is a lightweight MVC framework that makes a lot of things simple.

One thing i am trying my best to accomplish is making on the controllers so that

Functions do not need a return to call up there template, and variables to post to views need to be much less cumbersome.

example

# Current Method
public function index()
{
  # Variable
  $this->Cabbit->Template->var = "hello";

  # Show template
  $this->Cabbit->Template->Layout();
}

# Proposed new method
public function index()
{
  # Variable
  @var = "hello";
}

# New Method

Also all my code is changing to a single # for comments from the current miss mash it is, this is the way i have been using comments for months on rails and i like it better than other methods.
Also i have settled on a double space for code indenting over my normal 3 and 4 space methods.

halojoy

I have had a quick look into the files.
I must say I like how it look, even if I have not tried to run it.
I was not expecting such advanced coding from 'a newbie' 😉
You may be sort of a newbie with PHP, but you CAN program.
Was it Ruby on Rails?

I have been very much into study different basic Databases for PHP
(even done flatfile database of my own)
and so one thing I would wish, is you use PDO for database.

It is much better than normal mysql_ and even better than mysqli->
And you get the benefit to connect to many different Databases,
including SQLite 3, which is filebased.

<?php
#
    # Cabbit 1.1
    # Licence: GPLv2
    # CabbitDatabase v1.0
#

class Cabbit_Database
{
    # Variables
    private $username;
    private $password;
    private $server;
    private $database;

public function db_connect()
{
    # Configuration 
    $this->username = DB_Username;
    $this->password = DB_Password;
    $this->server = DB_Server;
    $this->database = DB_Name;

    # Connect to the databse and table
    mysql_connect($this->server, $this->username, $this->password);
    return mysql_select_db($this->database);
}
}

?>

PDO Drivers

* MS SQL Server (PDO)
* Firebird/Interbase (PDO)
* IBM (PDO)
* Informix (PDO)
* MySQL (PDO)
* Oracle (PDO)
* ODBC and DB2 (PDO)
* PostgreSQL (PDO)
* SQLite (PDO)
* Driver 4D for PDO[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.pdo.php[/url]

Another advantage with PDO when used with Cabbit framework
would be you can use 'as it is' and it is PHP Data Object
that is, it is using One Class with methods. PDO->

PDO Class is fully possible to extend so you can add your own methods, if you wish.

Here is a connection example for MySQL or SQLite 3

<?php

// PDO for MySQL/SQLite Database
function db_open(){

//database settings
$db_driver = 'sqlite'; // or mysql
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbuser = 'root';
$dbpass = '';
$dbname = 'test';
$dbfile = 'mydata.sqlite3'; //for sqlite
//end settings

// Create Table if not exists
$create = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS gb_pdo (
	id INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,	name TEXT,
	email TEXT, web TEXT, comment TEXT,	time INTEGER)";
switch ($db_driver):
case 'mysql':
	$dsn = "mysql:dbhost=$dbhost;dbname=$dbname";
	$create = str_replace('TEXT', 'TEXT COLLATE utf8_general_ci', $create);
	break;
case 'sqlite':
	$dsn = "sqlite:$dbfile";
	$create = str_replace('AUTO_INCREMENT', 'AUTOINCREMENT', $create);
	$create = str_replace('TEXT', 'TEXT COLLATE NOCASE', $create);
	break;
default:
	exit('Only MySQL & SQLite supported');
endswitch;
// Connect database
$db = new PDO($dsn,$dbuser,$dbpass);
$db->exec($create); // CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS
return $db;

}

?>

jerry_louise

The new getting started guide is ready, never made one before and i have horrid spelling.

My next big task is getting http://www.phpactiverecord.org/ i have permission from the author to integrate this into Cabbit and its already in the file structure just don't know yet how to hook it up.

I do know i need to change some defaults as it currently extends ActiveRecord\Model, where i would like it to well be more Cabbit i guess its just silly but it makes sense when you look at say a Zend model.
I plan on using the new active record class which should take care of all the scary database stuff.

Oh any my ruby on rails experience goes as far as to reading a the learning rails book. But i have got much more PHP experience under my belt though most of it was building flat file php and nothing to complex. This is my first go at making something more complex with PHP.

jerry_louise

Seems the new toy i was wanting to integrate is a no go.
The PHP Active Record class uses Namespace and perhaps other PHP 5.3 functions. I don't know of any web hosts that support this just yet nor does my local mamp installation.

halojoy

In my deveopment personal Apache
I test so many things, I can never install anything in the root.
So whatever I install it is a subdirectory.

For Cabbit 1.1alpha I made the folder: /_cabbit11a/
Now after some trial and error I started changing the config.php
I show only the lines had to be changed

    # Development Environment
    case 'Development':

    # Site Path
    define("__SITE_PATH", $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/_cabbit11a');

    # Base URL
    define("__BASE_URL", '/_cabbit11a/'); // Note slash '/' at the end

    # Image Repository
    define("__IMAGE_REPOSITORY", "/_cabbit11a/public/images");

    # Turn on/off Error Reporting
    error_reporting(E_ALL);
    ini_set('display_errors', 1); // 1=ON

For running Cabbit from subdirectory also .htaccess Rewrite needs some changes

DirectoryIndex /_cabbit11a/public/index.php

RewriteRule (.*) /_cabbit11a/public/index.php?rt=$1 [L]

After these changes the links work.
But my server DOES NOT support short_open_tag.
And this is how it will be most everywhere in future, too.
It is PHP Recommendation!!

PHP INI

short_open_tag	Off

So I had to edit those 'bad' pages.

<?= image_link_tag("cabbit_logo.png") ?>
<h2>Welcome</h2>
<p>Hello world welcome to Cabbit 1.1 
<?= link_to("show more", $controller = "index", $action ="show", $id = '5') ?>.</p>

Becomes in correct PHP

<?php echo image_link_tag("cabbit_logo.png") ?>
<h2>Welcome</h2>
<p>Hello world welcome to Cabbit 1.1
<?php echo link_to("show more", $controller = "index", $action ="show", $id = '5') ?>.
</p>

All of this took me maybe 1 hour.
But now I got my first Cabbit installation going.

It is nice 🙂
Very well done, jerry_louise

jerry_louise

Yep i am starting to see short tags are a bad idea for some reason its not liked.

But to me <?= seemed much easier and its like rails <%= which is a normal practice. Right now i am rewriting a lot of the base code, the classes that are hand me downs i am starting on and a new activerecord class has been passed to me but it needs php 5.3 so its reserved only to my localhost just now.

Thanks for the feedback i'll incorporate it into my changes.

halojoy

It will be quite some time before hostings begin support 5.3
Now the changes from 5.2 to 5.3 are not few.
New functions and more.

Majority of free webhosts has got something like PHP 5.2.6 to 5.2.12,
what I have managed to find out.
So there is not much rush to make one PHP 5.3 version.
Most visitors at phpbuilder.com are probably still using some PHP 5.2 server.

And plenty of others may even be at some 5.1.x

halojoy

jerry_louise ... or somebody else
that knows a bit more about MVC Frameworks.

I want to write and add an application for my Cabbit.
Where do I start?

My guess is that I can first write one new Controller.
And after this add model/view what is needed.

Was thinking of add a Simple ContactForm for send me a mail from user.
Should be a suitable first application to include in Cabbit framework.

halojoy

I managed to add contactController and a couple of views for it.

I have changed the application.chtm
Added newlines \n , for betterlooking HTML source output.
Also indented include $yeild line
for better source appearance consistency.
As most people wont bother using XHTML STRICT
I changed to Transistional .. as a default

My /htdocs/cabbit11a/application/views/layouts/application.chtm

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head> 
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> 
    <title>Cabbit Framework</title>
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/_cabbit11a/public/images/favicon.ico" />
    <?php echo stylesheet_link_tag('stylesheet')."\n" ?>
    <?php echo javascript_include_tag('defaults')."\n" ?>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="wrapper">
<?php include $yeild; echo "\n" ?>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

halojoy

Here is my first Cabbit application.
I find it easy to work with your code.
I am learning quickly 🙂

First I wrote the contact form using HTML.
But there is a built in Cabbit->Form class.
So now I used this.

Hee is the lightweight contactController .. so far it works great.

<?php
# Name:     contactController
# Author:   halojoy at www.phpbuilder.com March 2010

Class contactController Extends Cabbit_Controller_Action
{
    # Initialisation function
    private function init()
    {
        return $this->Cabbit->Template->layout();
    }

# /contact/
# /contact/index
public function index()
{
    # Show Contact form
    $this->form();
    $this->init();
}

# /contact/process
public function process()
{
	$this->Cabbit->Template->var = "You entered: " . $_POST['email'];
    # Load Init
    $this->init();
}

public function form()
{
	$this->Cabbit->Form->brafterlabel = true;
	$this->Cabbit->Form->startForm('process');
	$this->Cabbit->Form->textInput('email','Email Address',false,'block');
	$this->Cabbit->Form->insertBR();
	$this->Cabbit->Form->textareaInput('comments','Enter Your Comments',false,'block');
	$this->Cabbit->Form->insertBR();
	$this->Cabbit->Form->submitButton();
	$this->Cabbit->Form->closeForm();
	$this->Cabbit->Template->form = $this->Cabbit->Form->getForm();
}
}

?>

jerry_louise

^_ i am glad your enjoying playing with it, though your braver than me using the form class. It was given to me years ago and is all PHP 4 i really need to write a new one.

I am working on quite a few upgrades though it seems there will be a version split one for PHP 5.3 with ActiveRecord and one for PHP 5.* that will have a more traditional database model class.

halojoy

jerry_louise;10947120 wrote:
^_ i am glad your enjoying playing with it, though your braver than me using the form class. It was given to me years ago and is all PHP 4 i really need to write a new one.

I am working on quite a few upgrades though it seems there will be a version split one for PHP 5.3 with ActiveRecord and one for PHP 5.* that will have a more traditional database model class.

I have downloaded the activerecord from the site.
http://cabbit.co.uk/public/downloads/Cabbit_activerecord.zip
But havent opened it yet.
I still learning the first version.

Have had only 2 Warnings/Notices in his FormClass, so far.
Line 83 and Line 662 ereg() ... so I replaced them with [man]preg_match()[/man]

jerry_louise

halojoy;10947104 wrote:
jerry_louise ... or somebody else
that knows a bit more about MVC Frameworks.

I want to write and add an application for my Cabbit.
Where do I start?

My guess is that I can first write one new Controller.
And after this add model/view what is needed.

Was thinking of add a Simple ContactForm for send me a mail from user.
Should be a suitable first application to include in Cabbit framework.

^_ to be truth full i wrote Cabbit because i first fired up Zend and Rails and kinda starred at my screen for a bit wondering how they worked. It does not make logical sense to me to use something i don't know how it works so i started looking for tutorials on MCV frameworks and experimenting with different ways to do it.

My first attempt was more of a flat file php system with a index.php that acted as a router depending on the URL, then quite some months ago i posted here with a basic MVC class that someone nicely fixed for me, i took that and a few tutorials and built something of a basic framework.

Now this basic framework has been rewritten twice and in the middle of being cleaned up before i bolt more features onto it.

Oh and look at one of the gems there is a Paypal direct payments and express checkout API built in. I really should document all these things and finish the code clean ups.

I would like to get it so that the coding is 100% my ip, just now is 70% mine and 30% code i have emailed for permission to use(regardless of licence its nice to ask people)

jerry_louise

halojoy;10947122 wrote:
I have downloaded the activerecord from the site.
http://cabbit.co.uk/public/downloads/Cabbit_activerecord.zip
But havent opened it yet.
I still learning the first version.

Have had only 2 Warnings/Notices in his FormClass, so far.
Line 83 and Line 662 ereg() ... so I replaced them with [man]preg_match()[/man]

I am going to get my professor or someone to voice act a screencast for me later today or tomorrow depending when folks arn't busy i am writing a script just now for it.

Though i must say i would love to get one of the guys that do the other screencasts i think there all finish or something. I love there accents.

jerry_louise

http://cabbit.co.uk/welcom.html

Working on the welcome page, it will be like a landing page when you first download and install Cabbit you'll see this page before anything else.

halojoy

That looks even better. http://cabbit.co.uk/welcom.html
Good layout you've done.

to voice act a screencast
I am an expert on the swedish laguage. If you want advice 🙂
But though not bad in britsh english, which I learned in school when I was young,
I must ask you what that sentence means?
- voice ... I know
- act .... and actor I know
- screencast ... I know not exactly ... a cast on screen ... movie hero?

to voice act a screencast ... I have no idea ... but of course we must have swedish expression for this, too

How is weather in Scotland? Here is still plenty of snow.

jerry_louise

Its cold as always but we have not had the snow for over a month. The wind is to bitterly cold to go out for to long where i am right at the sea.

jerry_louise

halojoy;10947108 wrote:
I managed to add contactController and a couple of views for it.

I have changed the application.chtm
Added newlines \n , for betterlooking HTML source output.
Also indented include $yeild line
for better source appearance consistency.
As most people wont bother using XHTML STRICT
I changed to Transistional .. as a default

My /htdocs/cabbit11a/application/views/layouts/application.chtm
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head> 
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> 
    <title>Cabbit Framework</title>
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/_cabbit11a/public/images/favicon.ico" />
    <?php echo stylesheet_link_tag('stylesheet')."\n" ?>
    <?php echo javascript_include_tag('defaults')."\n" ?>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="wrapper">
<?php include $yeild; echo "\n" ?>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Just a note on this bit unless you have switch the compression engine off the HTML will be stripped of all comments, spaces, and link breaks outside of html tags.

This is the output of the home page, there are 100 lines of comments on this page that have been stripped out.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head>   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />   <title>Cabbit Framework</title>  <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/public/images/favicon.ico" />  <link href="/public/stylesheets/stylesheet.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />  <script src="/public/javascripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script></head><body>  <div id="wrapper">     <div id="logo_header">      <h1 class="header">Cabbit 1.1</h1>      <h2 class="header">The other PHP Framework</h2>      <br />    </div>    <hr />    <h1>Welcome to Cabbit 1.1</h1><br /><h2>What is Cabbit ?</h2><p>Cabbit is a PHP model view controller framework developed as a learning exercise in creating MVC frameworks that i have decided to make available for anyone interested.</p><br /><h2>How to get it!</h2><h3>Getting Started</h3><p>To get started please read the <a href="/documentation/getting_started/">Getting Started Guide</a>.</p><h3>Download Cabbit now!</h3><p>Cabbit is available in two versions to cater for different versions of PHP.</p><p>Version 1.1 alpha for PHP 5.* <a href="/public/downloads/Cabbit.zip">Download me</a></p><p>Version 1.1 alpha ActiveRecord Edition for PHP 5.3+ <a href="/public/downloads/Cabbit_activerecord.zip">Download me</a></p><br /><h2>What makes Cabbit... Cabbit?</h2><p>Cabbit has some interesting features that wile avaliable else where, we have them too!</p><ul>  <li><b>Ease of use</b> - Cabbit strives to be a easy to use framework.</li>  <li><b>Object Oriented</b> - Cabbit is for fully object oriented development.</li>  <li><b>Flexible MVC</b> - Cabbit's MVC structure allows developers to work the way that best fits the application.</li>  <li><b>Easy Configuration</b> - Setting up Cabbit is pretty strate forward with minimal fuss.</li>  <li><b>Magic Active Record Stuff</b> - Cabbit has a wonderful Active Record class built in the PHP 5.3 version.</li>  <li><b>Paypal</b> - Cabbit has a built in Paypal direct payments and express checkout API.</li></ul><br /><h2>The road map to success</h2><table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1" summary="Feature and Todo">  <caption>Features and Todo</caption>  <tr><th>Name</th><th>Version</th><th>Status</th><th>Progress</th></tr>  <tr><td>Cabbit Base</td><td>1.0</td><td>Development</td><td>On Hold</td></tr>  <tr><td>Router</td><td>1.0</td><td>Development</td><td>On Hold</td></tr>  <tr><td>Session</td><td>1.0</td><td>Clean Up</td><td>On Hold</td></tr>  <tr><td>Template</td><td>1.1</td><td>Clean Up</td><td>On Hold</td></tr>  <tr><td>Form</td><td>0.1</td><td>Rebuild</td><td>On Hold</td></tr>  <tr><td>Paypal</td><td>0.9</td><td>Clean Up</td><td>On Hold</td></tr>  <tr><td>ControllerAction</td><td>1.1</td><td>Development</td><td>On Hold</td></tr>  <tr><td>ActiveRecord</td><td>0.1</td><td>Development</td><td>Begining Development</td></tr></table>  </div>  <div id="footer">  <h5>Useful links</h5>  <a href="http://cabbit.co.uk/">Cabbit Home Page</a> | <a href="http://cabbit.co.uk/documentation/getting_started/">Cabbit Getting Started Guide</a> | <a href="http://cabbit.co.uk/documentation/">Cabbit Documentation</a></li>    <p class="footer legal">Cabbit is free for all. Some classes are MIT Licenced and others are GPLv2 Licenced.</p>  </div></body></html>