Category Archives: Aura

Previously, on decoupling and dependencies, I said: “Some [Symfony] commenters were dissatsifed with my use of unit testing requirements to discover what a package really depends on, as opposed to what its composer.json file states.” I’m willing to allow that … Continue reading →

“There are no solutions … only trade-offs.” — Thomas Sowell tl;dr: “As a library author it’s tempting to bring in dependencies for various reasons, but as a library user it’s frequently convenient to not have cascading dependency sets. … If … Continue reading →

Late last night we released version 1.0.0-beta4 of the full-stack system, which composes all the independent Aura packages into a coherent framework using the Aura.Framework package in a project skeleton. We have extracted the “hello world” portions into their own … Continue reading →

Stan Lemon writes on the Aura Project for PHP 5.4+ blog about an experiment he’s trying: I was recently working on a small project that used Silex. As I browsed my vendor folder, I realized how much extra “stuff” I … Continue reading →

I did an email interview with the folks at PHP Magazin; their German version is here. What follows is our original email exchange in English. First of all, congratulations for releasing Aura 1.0! Thanks! Most of the packages are at … Continue reading →

The Aura Project for PHP 5.4 is happy to announce its first release of 1.0.0 stable library packages. The packages include: Aura.Autoload Aura.Cli Aura.Di Aura.Http Aura.Marshal Aura.Router Aura.Signal Aura.Sql Aura.Uri Aura.View Aura.Web In addition, we have initial beta releases of … Continue reading →

In testing the Aura.Http package, I have realized that it’s much more flexible, testing wise, to pass around file resources (a.k.a. handles, pointers, or streams) than it is to pass around file names. When you do that, you can use … Continue reading →

Sometimes you may wish to use Aura as a micro-framework. It’s also possible to assigning anonymous function to controller: <?php $map->add("read", "/blog/read/{:id}{:format}", [ "params" => [ "id" => "(\d+)", "format" => "(\..+)?", ], "values" => [ "controller" => function ($args) … Continue reading →

Looking from outside both Symfony2 and ZF2 is full of standalone components. But the reality is not the same. Though Symfony2 components are split into each components in github, you cannot give a pull request to that component. The tests … Continue reading →