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Hi There,

I am waiting in anticipation for the release of this version, as it has many cool features that I require.  Can you give me some ETA of its availability, I noted two days ago it was suppose to be released however no further information has happened.

Regards
Steven

Actually its finished and I have being readying its release.

I will try to get it done today.

I need another day on this.

I'm going to change the code for the services to make the coding better structured.

Do we have another ETA on 0.7?

Before the end of this week!

I have changed the framework into OOP style code.

Now I'm stuck on 2 things.

1. Use a request wrapper class or not.

2. Use a data container for config values or use constants.

If time permits you should use a wrapper class and a data container for config values

Thank you!

Been pretty quiet lately? Lots of notes in the forum on various bugs and I am applying alot of the fixes to get it up and running... but also wondering about the next release... should I put alot of effort in, or is there a big dif with 0.7... ie. is the database compatible?

Hi,

Yes I ran into some problems and had to find a good solution. I'm going over all the code now updating it.

It now has the request class and uses a lazy load registry / factory patern for loading files.

I need to go over all the pages to update the code.

Great, can't wait

I have implemented a request wrapper for v0.7 which is currenty works like this:

$request->get('name');
$request->get('name', 'post');
$request->get('country_id', 'get');
$request->get('HTTP_HOST', 'server');

I'm wondering which is the best way. It could also be done like this:

$request->getPost('name');
$request->getGet('country_id');
$request->getServer('HTTP_HOST');

or:

$post    =& $request->get('post');
$get      =& $request->get('get');
$cookie  =& $request->get('cookie');
$files      =& $request->get('files');
$server  =& $request->get('get');


Can any one recommend which is the best method to use?

Why not just access $_SERVER, $_POST, $_COOKIE, and $_GET? Seems silly to call $request->post('value') instead of just $_POST['value'] not to mention the extra coding (maybe even overhead) of a wrapper. Now it might be a good idea to add helpers for each of these super vars types. Something like set_cookie($array), safe_post($_POST['prevent_xss']).

I don't feel using a wrapper is good either, but I'm trying to set up the next version from an OOP perspective.

When using OOP globals should not really be used and should come from a source such as a request class.

I have decided to go with this style:

$post_info    =& $request->get('post');
$get_info      =& $request->get('get');
$cookie_info =& $request->get('cookie');
$files_info    =& $request->get('files');
$server_info =& $request->get('server');

oh, i see what you are getting at. check this out...
http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/l ... input.html

I was thinking of doing an code ignitor style class loader. I think its called a dependacy injector pattern.

The only problem is everything in the pages has to be like this:

$this->template->set('entry_name', $this->language->get('entry_name'));

are you talking about ci or open cart?

from what i gather, pages is the same thing as a view (MVC). am i right? i'm not sure what exactly the problem is. are you trying to do a template controller? it could work something like this in ci

router
  handles the sef url (http://www.qcodo.com/forums/topic.php/489/1/489/ view my post at the bottom)
  send to browse controller

product browse controller
  $data = array
  do some stuff and get results or vars to pass to view

foreach result_row as product
  $data[] = load_view(prod_resutls,$product);
endforeach

$template_vars[title] = "page title";
$template_vars[contents] = join($data);

load_view(master_template,$template_vars); 

it should also be said that ci doesnt load a class controller unless it's in the lib folder. kind of annoying since i wanted to load classes on the fly. i did run across such a function, but don't totally know how it works, since i'm not all that familiar with php5. i think it's using an empty shell to load the class file into.

function &build($class, $name)
{
$p4a =& P4A::singleton();
$args = func_get_args();
$str_args = '$this->$name =& new $class(';

for ($i=1; $istore($this->$name);
$this->_objects[] = $this->$name->getID();
$this->$name->setParentID($this->getID());
return $this->$name;
}