Roadmap

Completed features are marked in Green. Features currently in development are marked in Blue. Features that are being considered for inclusion are marked in Yellow.

Version 0.4.0 Feature List

• Object/Relational Mapper

  A set of objects for interfacing with a relational database

• Log Manager

  A centralized way to create log messages and direct them to different outputs

• Settings

  A generalized interface for unifying and accessing settings that have been stored in varying formats.

  • Ini Files

  • Arrays

  • Session

  • Collection

    Collects multiple settings sources into a single object

• Benchmark

  A simplistic approach for comparing the speed of test cases

• SQLite Database Adapter

Version 0.3.0 Feature List

• Autoloading

  Provides a simple, convenient interface for basic autoloading. Register a prefix with a directory and the rest is taken care of

• Error Handling

  Overrides the built in error handling of PHP with a more powerful set of tools.

  • Backtrace

    An object representation of a backtrace

  • Formatters

    A set of formatters for Errors and Backtraces that allow you to output them in various formats. HTML, plain text and JSON

• Select SQL Builder

  A Fluent interface for creating select statements

• Soap Server

  Using the XML Builders as a foundation, this will provide a more complete and intuitive interface for handling SOAP interations in PHP.

• Enum

  A convenient way of defining Enums in PHP

• Transforms

  An interface for two-way string transformation. These objects can be c hained together to easily manage long processes

  • Encryption

  • Encoding

    Base64, Ascii85, Hex, Quoted Printable, and MIME

  • Compression

  • Data Verification

    Hash Verification, Data Lifetime checks

• Session

  A standard interface for interacting with different session data sources.

  • PHP Session

  • Cookies

  • Transform Decorator

    Allows you to transparently hook a string transform into a session

• Streams

  An implementation of input/output streams akin to Java's. Sources include general URIs, StdIn/Out, Raw Strings and Error Logs

• Input

  Wrappers that provide an OO interface for interacting with GET, POST and FILES input data

• HTML Header

  Collects the details of an HTML header into a single location so that it can later be rendered automatically

Version 0.2.0 Feature List

• Curry

  • Instantiate

    Wraps a class, making it easy to play with arguments on instantiation

  • Invoke

    A lot like call, but this invokes a method on an object

• Iterators

  • Filtering Iterator

    Applies a filter to every value before returning it

  • Validating Iterator

    Determines whether a value should be included in the iteration by whether it passes validation

• Page Encapsulation

  A base class for easily generating the content of a page

• Email

  Creates a multi-part e-mail and sends it via PHP's mail function

  • Email Info Object

  • PHP Mail function transport

• Environment

  Parses out environmental information and provides a read only interface for accessing it.

  • Request

    An object oriented to interact with the request information

  • Response

    An object oriented way to send information back to the client

• Cache

  Provides a standard interface for caching a chunk of data according to a hash

  • Memcached

• Random Numbers

  A customizable interface for generating with random numbers

  • Seed

  • Multiply-With-Carry

  • Complementary-Multiply-With-Carry

• XML Builder

  Using PHP's DOMDocument, a well defined structure for creating XML documents

  • Root Document Builder

    The root class for building an XML document from builders

  • Node Create

    Generates a new node on the fly

  • Node Wrapper

    Wraps another XML builder with a node

  • Appender

    Appends nodes from collection of builders to the result of another builder

  • Soap Envelope

    Wraps another XML Builder in a soap envelope

  • Soap Fault

    Creates a Soap Fault node set

Version 0.1.0 Feature List

• Curry

  • Call

    Wraps functions, allowing for arguments played with when the method is invoked

• Database

  Object oriented, extensible database wrapper

  • Connection

  • Result

  • MySQLi

  • Extended Query Methods

• Exceptions

  Multi-purpose exception tree

• Filters

  Data filters

  • Arrays

    Non-recursively applies another filter to every value in an array

  • Array Offsets

    Applies specific filters to specific keys of an array

  • Boolean

  • Chain

    Strings multiple filters together in to a single filter

  • EMail Address

  • Floats

  • Integers

  • IP

  • Numbers

  • Standardize Empty

    This tests to see if a value is empty, which could be null, a blank string, or a number of other things, and converts it to a standard value if it is.

  • URLs

  • Alpha-Numeric

  • Letters

  • Digits

  • PHP Variable

    Filters everything that isn't acceptable in a PHP variable name

• Quoter

  Given a set of open and close quotes, this splits a string and then allows you to iterate over or perform operations only on specific parts of the string.

• Validator

  A generalized validation interface that allows you to get a yes/no response, or a detailed description of the problem.

  • All in Collection

    Collects a list of validators and requires that they all return positively for this validator to return positive.

  • Any of Collection

    Collects a list of validators and returns valid if any of them are valid

  • None of Collection

    Another validator collection that only returns valid if everything inside of it is invalid

  • Email Address

  • URL

  • Not Empty

  • Regular Expressions

  • Comparisons

    Supports comparisons like equals, greater than, less than, etc.

  • List

    Checks to see if a value is contained in a list of options

  • Uploaded File

  • IP v4

  • Maximum Length

  • Minimum Length

  • No Spaces

  • Callback

  • Alpha-Numeric

  • Letters

  • Digits

  • PHP Variable

    Validates whether a string would be valid as a PHP variable

• Date/time

• HTML Tag

  A basic object-oriented interface for creating an HTML tag

• Forms

  Create forms, add fields, validators, filters and quickly display them.

  • Form Class

  • Standard Text Field

  • Password Field

  • Hidden Field

  • Select Field

  • Checkbox Field

  • TextArea Field

  • File Upload Field

  • Radio Button Field

  • XSRF Protection Field

    With the recent press surrounding Cross Site Reference Forgery attacks, this form field validates a submitted form by hashing a user's session ID and checking it upon submission.

• File System

  Interface for interacting with directories and files

• File Finder

  Using a chain-of-command pattern, this allows directories to be registered, and then searched for contained files. It also allows mutations to be applied to file names.

  • Directory Searching

  • Include Path Searching

• Templating

  Using PHP itself as a templating engine, this will provide a basic abstraction layer for separating content from logic

  • PHP Include Templates

  • String Find/Replace Templates

  • Raw Content Template

  • Template Collection

• URL

  An interface for creating, manipulating and outputing URLs

• Assorted Functions

  String, Numeric, Debug and other general functions

Future Release Feature List

• Paginator

  Given a SQL statment, it will automatically create

• HTML Sanitizer

  By first encoding everything, and then selectively converting whitelisted tags and attributes back to HTML, this will sanitize a chunk of untrusted HTML.

• Database

  • Multi Query Guard

    Wraps a database connection and ensures that multiple queries aren't being executed within the same query invokation.

  • Caching

    Provides a connection wrapper that transparently caches select queries

• HTML Standardizer

  A very limited version of HTML tidy, this will apply a basic set of rules to fix common HTML errors.

• Organizer

  Given an array or an iteratable object, this will attempt to re-organize it in to branches

• Filters

  • Phone Number

  • Zip Code

  • Social Security Number

  • Switch

    Collects a list of filters and validators. When a value is filtered, it will only apply a registered filter if the given validator returns true

• Validator

  • Credit Cards

  • Phone Number

  • Zip Code

  • Social Security Number

  • File Mime Type

  • Image Width

  • Image Height

  • Filtered Validator

    This accepts a filter and another validator on instantiation. When a value is validated, it is first run through the filter and the result is validated. The filtered value is discarded and the validation results are returned.

• Encryption

• Cache

  Provides a standard interface for caching a chunk of data according to a hash

  • Database Cache

  • Session Cache

• Cookie

  An object representation of a cookie

• HTTP Requestor

  Provides an object oriented interface for cURL

• Bilingual

  An interface for creating multi-language sites based on a hash lookup

• Table Generator

  Useful for creating administrative views quickly, it would provide shortcuts for formatting tabular data

• Data Types

  Object representations of common data types

  • Credit Card

  • Social Security Number

  • Name

  • Phone Number

  • Address

• Forms

  • Checkbox List

  • Javascript Decorators

    Automatically hook in javascript to form fields. For example, javascript driven form validators.

• Permissions

  A quick and easy way to create a permissions tree and perform tests against it

• Image Manipulators

  Create a standardized, object oriented interface for creating and manipulating images

• RSS/Atom Feed Generator

  This should be included as part of the XML Builder interface

• Token Parser

  Takes a list of tokens generated by token_get_all() and parses them in to a set of usable objects

• Object Graph Builder

  An XML based interface for constructing object graphs. XML Nodes would map to object names with sub-nodes passed as constructor arguments. Primitives would need a way to be represented, as well as variables.

  The purpose of this is to make it easy quickly construct and re-use object graphs when wiring together a page.

• Javascript and CSS Manager

  An interface for collecting javascript and css files, and then displaying them

• CLI Argument Parser

  A set of helper objects for quickly reading complex command line argument structures.