I really hope that this project would stay simple and elegant (as far as php allows to do that) but i’m very sad that you prefer database oriented approach than model oriented approach. In my job when develop an application we works on a local sqlite database. But the staging and production system is on postgresql. When i inform a php model what columns it has and what type it is – the migration system can easily put schema changes into my local sqlite and when i deploy application on production system it migrates changes to postgresql. I don’t need to look into database structure because i don’t really care. If this is mysql, sqlite, postgresql, oracle, mongo or sth else. Other example – how will you optimize table joins? In django there is a “select_related” option. Django will make just one sql query (join table A with table B) and split columns into object A and B. Without column info it’s impossible to do that because you can’t get A.* and B.* having known in a result what columns is from what model. Of course you may try to explore database structures in system tables of current DB adapter but i guess has not a good performance.

But this is my approach and my experience and this is your project. Maybe some day you’ll allow me to fork your project and change it

Anyway.. great that you continue this project. I look for updates everyday. When you think of this project to be more “production ready” i could help you with making a postgres adapter or maybe write some unit tests. Let me know.

Cheers.

I know, I’ve been busy as heck lately and just haven’t had much time to dedicate to this side project. However, I have done some work on a pretty major overhaul/rewrite that so far I am quite happy with. I have a long ways to go still, a lot of testing and code clean up, but I’ve done a lot better job this time with properly separating the components into different classes (Models/Objects are defined separately, I’ve wrote it in such a way that alternate DB drivers could be used, I’m now using PDO as you recommended. I also have some plans on tightly integrating an intelligent caching mechanism (this will also be implemented properly to allow for different “drivers” if needed, i.e. memcache, Redis, etc).

I’m very hesitant to plan for any sort of Rails/django-style database model generator. Ideally I want to keep this “framework” as lightweight as possible, to be used more as a rapid-development assistant. Personally, when I’m working on any sort of project, I typically always draft the database schema first (after defining the requirements) to ensure I can properly normalize the tables. I definitely don’t want to replicate the database field-by-field in my framework model — I wanted to only define my models using the key fields/relationships (i.e. one-to-one, one-to-many relationships) and leave the rest of the native/root variable types (ints, strings, etc) to PHP. Hopefully this makes sense. Bottom line: for rapid development, I don’t want to have to replicate my carefully constructed database schema all over again in my PHP models. I also don’t prefer my database schema being auto-generated from my ORM model. This is all just personal preference. I’m trying to design phrames in the most flexible/expandable way possible.

I have done something very similar to what you’ve suggested, here is an example of how I’m defining Models in my rewrite so far:

  class Car extends Model {

    protected static function fields() {
      return array(
        "id" => array(
          "type" => "ID",
        ),
        "make" => array(
          "type" => "Make",
          "required" => true,
        ),
        "name" => array(
          "required" => true,
          "__get" => function($v) {
            return strtoupper($v);
          },
          "__set" => function($v) {
            return strtolower($v);
          }
        ),
      );
    }

    public function __toString() {
      return $this->name;
    }

  }

I think namespaces are a fantastic addition to the PHP language, and I’m definitely interested in implementing them with this project, I just want to get the core functionality in there first (and hopefully some legitimate unit testing). It’s not a huge codebase, so adding namespaces won’t be too difficult.

If you want to take a look through my rewrite so far, feel free. I’ve uploaded it to the link below. Just don’t judge me just yet on code quality — I’m just trying to get this rolling!

http://andrewfreiday.com/temp/phrames-dev-20120206.zip

Once this is in a more usable state I will glady upload this over my existing github project and send you an e-mail.

Thank you so much for your support and interest. All the best,

Andrew

I really can’t provide much help on any errors you’re having unless you tell me what those errors they are.

Andrew

A couple of quick suggestions to try and determine the problem:

First, if this is a development server (not public facing), make sure you have your PHP INI settings cranked up to show any errors.

Secondly, the script is likely throwing some errors, you are just not able to see them because it is trying to display the error output as a PNG image (which obviously won’t work). Try commenting out the header(“Content-Type: image/png”); line near the bottom of the script and running it again. This should dump all of your errors properly to your browser window.

Give those two things a shot and let me know what you get.

Andrew

I appreciate the effort you have made to create this script. It is exactly what I have been looking for.

I have been trying to run it on my Windows machine for the last few days and have had no luck. I am hoping you have run into this problem before and know a solution.

When I navigate to the .php and select my mp3 audio file, then hit Generate Waveform, the page will either refresh with a blank page. The waveform does not appear on the browser nor has it been created in the physical directory.

I have placed the .php file, lame.exe, and lame_enc.dll in the same directory, they are the only files in the directory, and there are no other directories inside the root directory. The directory has write permissions. I have tried changing certain variables to see if it changes anything, it does not work. I am using various mp3s with different encodes, still no luck.

Have you ever encountered this problem? Thanks.

I see that you don’t have time for phrames yet Will you continue in developing this project?

My answers:
1) I guess it will be good to split connection types for database backends, including schema browsing for making migrations (check answer 3). I think PDO is a good backend for this)
3) For template engine very similar to django there is a Twig. Looks and works very good. I used it for one of my projects. About south – django makes ORM “Model oriented” not “Database oriented” which means that database is created from model structure which makes sense for me. So when creating models it’s neccessary to tell info about properites/columns, like so:

class Channel(models.Model):

name = models.TextField(u’Name’)
order = models.IntegerField(u’Weight’)
def __unicode__(self):
return self.name

So south creates schemamigrations and migrate them into database. It will create SQL channel table with column name of type “text” and order column with type “integer”.

So it will be good to have this in PHP, but insteda of propel or doctrine i don’t think it’s good to have it declared in xml’s or yaml’s. It maybe something like this

class Channel extends Model {
$name = array(‘type’ => ‘text’);
$order = array(‘ty[e’ => ‘integer’);
}

I’ve changed structure to PHP namespaces so it looks much better. What do you thing about namespaces?

And some sort of links to my work
(i can’t show you much of my work becouse of company restrictions).

(everything is in polish)

http://outlay.goblix.pl (Django)
http://you-ebook.pl (PHP with my own framework)
http://rct.goblix.pl (This is PunBB Forum but with lot’s of extensions i’ve made)
http://quadric.goblix.pl (This is my personal blog)

I still wait for an e-mail from you when you got some time.
Cheers.

Thank You

I got a lot of errors popping up and I made sure that the directory had a CHMOD of 777 as well as the file itself. I’ve placed the lame.dll in the director yet no luck, I am missing a step or something please help thank you.