If you use PHP for some years, you will often fight the same problems, which leads to a lot of unuseful work when implementing basic issues like a properly designed class to send mails in a sane way, parsing an INI-file, basic generating of PHP-code, logging to a file or database or an implementation for a persistant object. This components are often needed and you have to write them by yourself, if you want to work around the tranditional and outdated PEAR-packages. So, maybe some day, you have all the patterns you need and can begin to write code but how long does it take? Two years? For years? Not that sensible. So it raises productivity if you can use a set of components which are small, independent and designed for the current state of the language, means: PHP 5.1.x. eZ components by eZ systems fit this specification. You can solve the problems above and much more – analysing and modifying images, debugging, working with user input and, as surplus, you can work with PHP for shell-scripts with ConsoleTools.
As theory is supposed to be useless without practice, a small example for reading an INI-file. Let’s assume the following INI-file:
[context] foobar = Bla bla = blubb whatever = bar
$reader = new ezcConfigurationIniReader();
$reader->init('/path/to/your/config/dir, 'config' );
$config = $reader->load();
echo $config->getSetting( "context", "foobar" );Filed on 03-05-2006, 11:11 under Code, Components, Design patterns, ezComponents, Patterns, PHP, Technology, www & no comments & no trackbacks
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