flashape

I was searching around for something to unrelaed to this, but what I found was this pretty sweet freeware app called PHP Designer, an IDE to code your PHP, XML, CSS, JS, SQL, etc. files in. It’s pretty surprisingly full-featured for a freeware app (free for both private and commercial use!): multipl language support, built in FTP support, a project manager, snippets, built-in debugger, class browser, TODO manager and more. It’s not a WYSIWYG editor, but it does have button toolbars for adding your code. This is pretty much what I feel like SEPY would be with multi-language support.
The one thing that stops me from giving this two thumbs way up (besides the lack of ActionScript support)…and this is a big one for me…is that lack of custom syntax coloring support. Oddly enough, you can change the editor’s background color…but not the language syntax coloring. After doing some searching around in the product’s support forums, I found that it looks like this may be possible, but now without getting dirty with the app’s config files, something I really don’t even want to mess with.
But if you are ok with the default syntax coloring of the app, and you’re interested in trying an app that offeres many of the features of Dreamweaver (and some DW doesn’t offer), then I suggest you give this one a try.

first off, gModeler kicks major ass. Now that that’s out of the way, I want everybody to criticise the crap out of my class diagram for this app I’m building. Here’s the layout, click the thumbnail for the larger image:

The layout may look a little funky becasue i was trying to squeeze everything into the screenshot, but here’s the rundown:
I have a SiteManager class that acts as a psuedo-controller, all the requests go through that.
I have two main superclasses, DynamicOutputter and RecordHandler. Each section of the web site has a corresponding “outputter” class of its own…so for news it would be News_Outputter, and that inherits from DynamicOutputter. The outputters return the formatted output for the page. Each outputter is composed with its corresponding RecordHandler(same deal for the RecordHandlers, each site section has its corresponding record handler that handles communication with the database, and inherits from the RecordHandler superclass). Each RecordHandler’s sublcass overrides one method, setValueArray(), which sets its values, which are the names of the rows in the table it will be dealing with.
When the SiteManager recieves a request, it uses a factory (either DynamicContentFactory or RecordHandlerFactory) to determine which sections class to instantiate, bases on a given id parameter.
If anything else isnt clear, just ask, otherwise, fire away, as long as its constructive criticism.

Just saw this post over at Digital Media Minute about something called Cake, a PHP web application framework. I have to say after checking it out I’m really excited about it…I hope this sticks around and matures. I wonder how/if this would relate to using AMFPHP?
–update: After reading this post again, i realized how much of a TOTAL FREAKING GEEK i am for getting “really excited” about a php application framework…i love it though!!
Posted by flashape at 01:53 PM | Comments (2)
April 05, 2005
copy directory in php
While trying to figure out how to copy an entire directory to a new location (on the same web server) in php, I came across this function. I took that as a base and modified it to handle premissons better:
function copyr($source, $dest){
// Simple copy for a file
if (is_file($source)) {
$c = copy($source, $dest);
chmod($dest, 0777);
return $c;
}

// Make destination directory
if (!is_dir($dest)) {
$oldumask = umask(0);
mkdir($dest, 0777);
umask($oldumask);
}

// Loop through the folder
$dir = dir($source);
while (false !== $entry = $dir->read()) {
// Skip pointers
if ($entry ‘.’ || $entry ‘..’) {
continue;
}

// Deep copy directories
if ($dest !== “$source/$entry”) {
copyr(“$source/$entry”, “$dest/$entry”);
}
}

// Clean up
$dir->close();
return true;
}