[TYPO3-ect] lib/div 1.0 - it's time to say thank you

[Jochen Rieger]

Hi Elmar & all,

> Yes, we need to discuss and compare them. I hope somebody takes up and
> guides us through that discussion.

I won't be able to guide but I can report my experiences with cakePHP 
which I recently used for an application that originally was planned to 
be set up with TYPO3.

In genereal: cake has some amazing approaches that make programming so 
nicely easy!

And here we come across Nikolas' points concerning the model's default 
methods. In cake, too, they have methods like save(), edit(), delete(), 
findAll() etc.

For example saving the data of a submitted form just looked like this in 
the controller:

<snip>

function edit($id = null) {

	if (empty($this->data)) {
	
		$this->Orderitem->id = $id;
	        $this->data = $this->Orderitem->read();
	    }
	    else {
	
		if ($this->Orderitem->save($this->data['Orderitem'])) {
	
			$this->flash('Data saved.', '/orders.html');
	    }
	}
} // end function edit()

</snip>


You will get the item's data for inserting into the form by

$this->Orderitem->read();

where Orderitem is the model and read a default function of the cake 
framework's parent model class.

$this->Orderitem->save(...) saves the submitted data.

In the model you can also define validation options just as class vars:

var $validate = array(
		'quantity' => VALID_NUMBER,
		'material' => VALID_NOT_EMPTY,
		'format' => VALID_NOT_EMPTY,
	);

So ... the framework takes care of many things that you (at least I do) 
consider as a pain in the a** sometimes.

Another nice thingy is the flash() method which is inherited from the 
parent controller class. In case of a successful db query it flashes an 
arbitrary message for 3 seconds and then performs a redirect.

Alright I could continue now talking about cake but this won't help too 
much. I will follow the discussion and try to contribute my ideas and 
experiences in suitable places!

Keep up... I really like your approach.

Cheers,
Jochen