PHP5 really is a nice step forward from PHP4. It's improved object support and exception handling make it easier to sell as a "real language" with management and clients. And PDO looks quite promising as well. Unfortunately, it is hard to find hosts that support PHP5.
I've put together a set of componenets that I developed under a loose framework for PHP5, called phacade , that provide some of the conveniences of ASP.NET and JavaServer Faces, without all the headeaches those two technologies seem to include. phacade aims to provide components that can be used simply for simple projects, and as simply as possible for complex projects. Much like PHP itself, phacade is intended to work equally well for both procedural and Object Oriented scripts.
If you're a PHP5 developer, please check it out and feel free to send feedback.
fyuze sorta does what you mentioned. all of the layout and styles are determined by the style sheets, which users can select from existing skins, create by themselves, and also upload to share. it's not perfect between browsers, but it's pretty close.
the whole voyager series, i was hoping that they would use wesley (and his new found talent for traveling through space and time) to bring the voyager crew back home. i thought that would have provided some nice continuity to the whole franchise. that traveler was a cool dude.
it'll work, but it will look really ugly. what boggles my mind is that the same people who will download and recompile each new kernel release, refuse to get a browser that isn't 4 years old.
I was particularly intrigued by this post on the Reptile project today, because I run and develop a similar project, fyuze. The idea behind fyuze is similar to the idea behind Reptile: automate the process of retrieving, organizing and sifting through data. This eliminates the need to hop from site to site to collect information, and provides a certain level of convenience. Add in features that make it possible to have the system automatically scan for content that matches a particular criteria, along with the ability to search arbitrarily, and you've got a great way to collect all the news you want, and quickly find all the latest reviews for, say, "Planet of the Apes."
fyuze differs from Reptile significantly in that it is a web-based system, not a client P2P application, meaning there is no software to install, simply log on, create an account, and then re-logon from anywhere else. This means that (in the future) it will be possible to use fyuze via a cell phone, or PDA, or any other web enabled device, like the flat-screen mounted to your fridge.
To simply list a couple of features, fyuze allows users to add content/feeds to the system, it supports RDF/RSS as well as plain old HTML, it has a skinnable interface via CSS, it allows for real-time content collection, and has an advanced (content can span multiple rows and columns) layout system.
The real-time collection mechanism allows for fyuze to retrieve user specific information from a site. This means that a weblog could provide a user with not only the latest posts, but also information on recent replies to that user's comments, status of pending posts, karma, etc.
fyuze, in its current form, is only about a month old, so you may find it's selection of content a little small, but many popular sites are available. Besides, users can add content, so if you run a site, add it!
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PHP5 really is a nice step forward from PHP4. It's improved object support and exception handling make it easier to sell as a "real language" with management and clients. And PDO looks quite promising as well. Unfortunately, it is hard to find hosts that support PHP5.
I've put together a set of componenets that I developed under a loose framework for PHP5, called phacade , that provide some of the conveniences of ASP.NET and JavaServer Faces, without all the headeaches those two technologies seem to include. phacade aims to provide components that can be used simply for simple projects, and as simply as possible for complex projects. Much like PHP itself, phacade is intended to work equally well for both procedural and Object Oriented scripts.
If you're a PHP5 developer, please check it out and feel free to send feedback.
Anyone else have any interesting PHP5 projects?
fyuze sorta does what you mentioned. all of the layout and styles are determined by the style sheets, which users can select from existing skins, create by themselves, and also upload to share. it's not perfect between browsers, but it's pretty close.
the whole voyager series, i was hoping that they would use wesley (and his new found talent for traveling through space and time) to bring the voyager crew back home. i thought that would have provided some nice continuity to the whole franchise. that traveler was a cool dude.
it'll work, but it will look really ugly. what boggles my mind is that the same people who will download and recompile each new kernel release, refuse to get a browser that isn't 4 years old.
I was particularly intrigued by this post on the Reptile project today, because I run and develop a similar project, fyuze. The idea behind fyuze is similar to the idea behind Reptile: automate the process of retrieving, organizing and sifting through data. This eliminates the need to hop from site to site to collect information, and provides a certain level of convenience. Add in features that make it possible to have the system automatically scan for content that matches a particular criteria, along with the ability to search arbitrarily, and you've got a great way to collect all the news you want, and quickly find all the latest reviews for, say, "Planet of the Apes."
fyuze differs from Reptile significantly in that it is a web-based system, not a client P2P application, meaning there is no software to install, simply log on, create an account, and then re-logon from anywhere else. This means that (in the future) it will be possible to use fyuze via a cell phone, or PDA, or any other web enabled device, like the flat-screen mounted to your fridge.
To simply list a couple of features, fyuze allows users to add content/feeds to the system, it supports RDF/RSS as well as plain old HTML, it has a skinnable interface via CSS, it allows for real-time content collection, and has an advanced (content can span multiple rows and columns) layout system.
The real-time collection mechanism allows for fyuze to retrieve user specific information from a site. This means that a weblog could provide a user with not only the latest posts, but also information on recent replies to that user's comments, status of pending posts, karma, etc.
fyuze, in its current form, is only about a month old, so you may find it's selection of content a little small, but many popular sites are available. Besides, users can add content, so if you run a site, add it!
For more info, it might be helpful to read the following k5 article: Quest for the Ultimate Homepage