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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GSoC idea proposal for a new PHP project
From: david.nqd@gmail.com (David Duong)

Please ignore all the redundant statements in my first paragraph >.<, 
I'm not sure why it came out to be like that..

David Duong wrote:
> Hello everyone and thanks for the reminder Marcus,
> 
> This is just a follow up of what I posted earlier in this thread.
> 
> Instead of submitting my HyperWiki project, instead, I submitted one 
> that was originally intended to be used with HyperWiki for a agnostic 
> database layer (ADatabase) that attempts to provide a db portability 
> layer for connecting and issuing statements to a RDBMS that focuses on a 
> minimal interface (leaving room for additional extensions) and will 
> either translate or emulate a subset of standard ISO SQL statements.
> 
> Since this project will only support PHP5.1 and up, it differs from 
> current projects like ADOdb, Creole and MDB2 since there will not be any 
> PHP4 legacy support/code or the resulting large and loosely cohesive 
> classes, or error checking functions (I believe exceptions supersede 
> these).
> 
> The project itself is only a small set of interfaces that can be 
> extended to create other abstraction layers that are compatible with 
> ADatabase so any project already using ADatabase can easily switch to a 
> other systems with minimal code modifications. The main work in the 
> project will be to develop the drivers which is initially planned to be 
> MySQL, SQLite, PgSQL and MSSql.
> 
> 
> 
> Even though the application has already been submitted, I would 
> appreciate any comments or suggestions about this project.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David Duong
> Marcus Boerger wrote:
>> Hello David,
>>
>>   remember that the deadline for submitting projects is monday.
>>
>> best regards
>> marcus
>>
>> Saturday, March 24, 2007, 7:22:14 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> Hello php.internals,
>>
>>> I saw the Summer of Code article on php.net and am contacting this 
>>> group to hopefully gain the interest of possible mentors for an open 
>>> source project that has been rolling around the back of my mind.
>>
>>> The idea I am proposing I call HyperWiki since it is a hypertext 
>>> distribution system, built with PHP5. It is based off the idea of 
>>> Hyperbases (I couldn't find something outside of an assignment 
>>> specification for a software architecture course to reference it 
>>> with) and structureless content management systems (the "wiki" part).
>>
>>> The project's goal is to provide a system that:
>>> 1. Provides a minimal CMS (called a "gateway") where structure 
>>> (what/how content is stored, user permissions, etc.) can be declared 
>>> by the administrator who may not even know PHP. Administrators can 
>>> find controllers from either this project or third-part to provide 
>>> the gateway's functionality. Only XHTML with elements and data 
>>> relevant to request, i.e. no design, header, sideblocks or footer 
>>> will be transmitted.
>>> Note: except when XSL is not supported by the client
>>> 2. When a user makes a search request, the gateway provides the 
>>> search results as well as a list of other linked systems that the 
>>> user can search concurrently. Or, at least, the gateway can search 
>>> linked systems and return aggregated results.
>>> Users can add/edit/delete entries on systems beside the one they use 
>>> as a "gateway", and regardless of whichever system the user gets the 
>>> results from, the "gateway" provides the presentation logic (XSL), so 
>>> the user should not even be aware of the idea of "gateways" and 
>>> linked systems.
>>
>>> An example of the data-only XHTML in my proposal is demonstrated at 
>>> my website: http://www.forizon.com where pages are transmitted 
>>> without any extraneous presentation elements, but they link to a XSLT 
>>> file that provide all the presentation logic. I have implemented 
>>> parts of the gateway software, and I hope to finish it and have some 
>>> means to seamlessly connect the gateways.
>>
>>> Hopefully, this is the right mentoring organization to apply to. 
>>> Although it doesn't add to the PHP project itself, except to be a 
>>> test case itself for PHP5 and possibly PHP6.
>>
>>> I should end the email here, but I'll provide a schedule, progress 
>>> indicators, bio, etc in the Google SoC application.
>>
>>> Regards,
>>
>>> David Duong
>>
>>> btw - I have sent an email earlier to internals@php.net, but 
>>> apparently that is not the right address so I apologize if this is a 
>>> duplicate message.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>  Marcus