Zynapse 2 (Rewrite)

This is a started and (so far) never completed attempt to rewrite Zynapse from the ground up with a completely new boot sequence, object structure, and almost everything else changed and improved as well.

One of the basic ideas was to separate the basic components better into different classes, and making sure that wether you're in a Controller, Model, or View file, you can access all the basic parts via the $this variable. Those basic parts includes the current controller, ActionBase instance, logger, session, and more.

Initial Development Notes

What follows are some notes I made when I started working on this rewrite. Not much of this is implemented as of now, and not sure it ever will be.

• GOALS
  • More lightweight than v1.
  • Everything (including boot process) moved to classes which are initialized.
  • Serialize all but the current request process objects and store them in session or on disk for a faster boot process on each page request.
• CLASSES
  • Zynapse – The main class which loads, caches, and controls all other classes.
  • "Action" classes — Core internal workings of Zynapse
    • ActionEnvironment — "env" in code
      Loads settings and configures all environment related settings.
    • ActionBase — "base" in code
      Handles actual page requests, initializes the controllers, and sends the output to ActionView.
    • ActionView — "view" in code
      Gets data output from the Controller and renders it with the corresponding view file.
    • ActionShell — "shell" in code
      The class that initializes and runs shell scripts.
  • "Active" classes — Data storage classes of one type or another.
    • Database Storage
      • ActiveRecord
        Object relational mapper for MySQL, SQLite, MSSQL, PostgresSQL...
      • ActiveCouch
        CouchDB datastore to be implemented in the future.
      • ActiveMongo
        MongoDB datastore to be implemented in the future.
    • Misc. Storage
      • ActiveLog — "log" in code
        Logging system used by ActionBase, ActiveRecord, and other components to log what is happening.
      • ActiveSession — "session" in code
        Session initialization and misc proceedures.
      • ActiveLocale — "locale" in code
        Handles localization, and creates global helpers for getting and setting locale strings. Uses ActiveProperty as it's storage system.
      • ActivePreferences — "prefs" in code
        Preference storage system. Creates global helpers for getting and setting locale strings. Uses ActiveProperty as it's storage system.
      • ActiveCache
      • AcitveProperty
        Simple and fast "flat file" storage system. Stores any type of PHP variable by writing an actual PHP class with the values defined, which means there's no overhead in parsing the file when it's read in again.
      • ActivePropertyList
        The class which contains the actual data of the ActiveProperty system. The ActiveProperty class simply organizes and reads in children of ActivePropertyList.
• HELPERS
  Helpers are normal PHP functions which are available on a global scope. Some are intended for global use (like the locale helpers), and some are intended solely for use within view files.
  • Global Helpers
  • View Helpers

License

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Copyright (c) 2010 Jim Myhrberg.

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