Paul M. Jones

Solar is a simple object library and application repository for PHP5 under E_STRICT. It takes hints from PEAR and Horde, and bears some superficial resemblance to Ruby on Rails for its MVC application directory structure.
API documentation is becoming voluminous, and is bundled with the package now, along with an example Solar.config.php file.
The change notes [...]

This month’s International PHP Magazine has my article on Yawp; woohoo! :-)
Yawp (for PHP4 and non-strict PHP5) is a single PEAR-compliant class that encapsulates a number of other PEAR classes, and ties them all together with a simple configuration file. When you use Yawp as the base of your application, you get…

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Regarding the latest release of Solar, Atrus asked: “How is this significantly different from PEAR?” It’s a good question. In this post, I outline some of what I think are the major differences.

Busy weekend; lots of MBA coursework completed, and three releases of Solar. This one is a combined bugfix and function enhancement. Change notes are:

* WARNING: This is a public development release, and is not
yet stable.

* Removed notify() method and related properties from
Solar_Cell_Comments, as that method is more properly in
the realm of the application [...]

Bug tracking for Solar is now available at http://solarphp.com/bugs.php. This is the proof-of-concept Solar_App_Bugs application (eat your own dog food, right?).

Some bugfixes in this release. You really should join the mailing list; good info on setting up Solar.config.php is there.

Well, I just signed up for PHP Tropics conference in Cancun being held by PHP Architect. This is my first PHP conference, and I’m really looking forward to meeting in person some of the people with whom I have corresponded for so long. And goodness knows I need a vacation. :-)

A new release, with a del.icio.us clone application included.

Well, sort of fixed. The crypt() portion is still limited to 8 characters, but I’ve added support for SHA1 (thanks Tomas Cox!) and APR1-MD5 (thanks Mike Wallner!).

Using crypt and htpasswd with passwords longer than 8 characters can be a security problem. (Updated with good fix!)