Comments on: Book Review: PHP5 CMS Framework Development by Martin Brampton

By: Martin Brampton

Martin Brampton — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:22:27 +0000

Thank you for your kind review of my book on building CMS frameworks in PHP5. I’m happy to agree with much of what you say, and the rest is really a matter of legitimate differences of opinion. Having said that, one thing I’m interested to take up is the use of singleton classes. While I can see that they have drawbacks, my feeling is that they are the least bad option in a number of cases, on account of limitations of the PHP object model. In particular, the use of class methods (which might be seen as a natural alternative to singletons) is quite constrained by the characteristics of static methods. Some relevant discussions appear in my article on so-called peer classes in Propel and Symfony at http://blog.guru-php.com/2008/08/peer-classes-in-symfony-and-propel/.

By: Mike Lively

Mike Lively — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:57:03 +0000

I guess it is called Zen Track: http://www.zentrack.net

Now that everyone realizes my memory sucks, thanks for the comment .

I will see about putting aside some time to detail what I would do differently as it would be an interesting introspect for myself.

By: Mike Lively

Mike Lively — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:34:10 +0000

I wanted to see if I could right a review that was longer than the book. Maybe next time

By: Mike Lively

Mike Lively — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:33:29 +0000

There is a correction to make, I am actually not sure why I said dotProject. It was ZenTracker that I did that work on. I apologize for the confusion. and I think I worked on it around 5 or 6 years ago? I can’t seem to find the project anymore so it may very well be a dead project.

I will correct the article. I’m very glad you asked this question .

By: jason belich

jason belich — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:59:56 +0000

Can’t help but love your brevity, Mike.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:07:09 +0000

Thanks for your post on this book. Seems like one I should check out.

I wanted to ask about your dotProject i18n work. I’m part of the current development team and was wondering when you had done that work and if it had ever made it back into the core. If it hasn’t been sent “upstream,” I’d be happy to take a look at it for consideration. If it’s already the i18n code I’m familiar with, then “thank you” for your work on it.

I’d love to hear more thoughts of how you’d like to have done better–if you would change things now after reading this book.