http://orchid.phpxperts.net PHP framework for the rest of us Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:19:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en as promised, orchid comes with real flexibility which lets you design your application in less time. in orchid, there is a nice active record object which helps you to interact with your database very easily. beside that, you can also write your own model class to facilitate comples business logics ... http://orchid.phpxperts.net/2008/04/10/part-2-working-with-models/ today i was planning to start the documentation of orchid framework for the rest of us(?). so this one is the first installment of this series. you will find small tutorials everyday. just stick with the series and you will see how far we can fly you. time to get ... http://orchid.phpxperts.net/2008/04/06/part-1-getting-started-with-orchid/ Ok, lets try to create baby out of orchid :P Take her at your place for date: Copy the orchid folder to a location of choice where you like to host the app. Make sure she is vergin There should not be any app folder inside the orchid folder. If any, remove it. Get ... http://orchid.phpxperts.net/2008/03/18/creating-a-basic-app-with-orchid/ Recently we have added http object, blueprint css framework and RSS reader and writer class in orchid. Due to having some complexity, we decided to add support of open id in next stable release. The project is running under heavy documentation. You can expect a beta very soon :) If you are ... http://orchid.phpxperts.net/2008/01/25/update/ We have added a new object in orchid framework. This is an object to help you manage all remote operations (over HTTP) extremely easier. This is a wrapper of HTTP class that uses either cURL or fsockopen to harvest resources from the web. It supports a handy subset of functionalists ... http://orchid.phpxperts.net/2008/01/25/new-addition-http-object/ Two domains for orchid is taken today. They are 1. www.orchidframework.net 2. www.orchidframework.com http://orchid.phpxperts.net/2007/12/29/domains-taken/ Not both of them are in same group. OpenID is one of the most successful single sign on solution for open source developers and BP is Blueprint, a really nice CSS framework. We are planning to bundle both of them in orchid in next release. Needless to say, BP will work ... http://orchid.phpxperts.net/2007/12/25/we-are-planning-to-integrate-openid-and-bp/ Not a big deal in Orchid. If u have a table named "users" in your mysql database with the following structure, you can interact with it like this. CREATE TABLE `users` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `username` varchar(250) default NULL, `password` varchar(32) default NULL, PRIMARY KEY ... http://orchid.phpxperts.net/2007/12/24/using-models/ Writing inline unit test makes it painless and hassle free. Orchid comes with a bundled unit test library which you can take full advantage of. Have a look at the following code to understand how to write your unit tests. No more "setup" and "teardown" for you :D Lets consider your ... http://orchid.phpxperts.net/2007/12/24/writing-inline-unit-tests-in-orchid/ Caching is one of the built in core features in orchid. Orchid supports three types of storage engine for orchid which are SQLite, MySQL and Memcache. You can take advantage of either one depending on your requirement. Lets have a look at how to work with caching engine in Orchid. ... http://orchid.phpxperts.net/2007/12/24/caching-in-orchid-is-easy/