Lydia, a PHP-based, MVC-inspired CMF

This project is used while teaching advanced PHP-programming with Model View Controller (MVC) frameworks with a taste of Content Management Framework (CMF).

Material in below links are mainly in swedish.

• http://dbwebb.se/lydia/current (try out the code)
• http://dbwebb.se/f/123 (forum with some tutorials on how the code was built, only in swedish)

License

Lydia is licensed according to MIT-license. Will consider double licensing with GPL in the future. Any included external modules are subject to their own licensing.

Use of external libraries

Lydia uses external libraries for state of the art samples. Any external module can be replaced or removed for less features but without disturbing the Lydia core functionality.

The following external modules are included in Lydia.

HTMLPurifier

HTMLPurifier by Edward Z. Yang to filter & format HTML.

• Website: http://htmlpurifier.org/
• Version: 4.4.0 (2012-01-18)
• License: LGPL
• Lydia path: src/CTextFilter/htmlpurifier-4.4.0-standalone
• Used by: CTextFilter

PHP Markdown & PHP Markdown Extra

PHP Markdown by Michel Fortin to filter text to HTML to write for the web. Based on the concept of Markdown by John Gruber.

• Website: PHP markdown: http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/
• Website: Markdown: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
• Version: PHP Markdown: 1.0.1o (2012-01-08)
• Version: PHP Markdown Extra 1.2.5 (2012-01-08)
• License: PHP Markdown & PHP Markdown Extra has BSD-style open source license OR GNU General Public License version 2 or a later version.
• License: Markdown has BSD-style open source license.
• Lydia path: src/CTextFilter/php-markdown
• Used by: CTextFilter

PHP SmartyPants & PHP Typographer

PHP SmartyPants and PHP Typographer by Michel Fortin for better typography. Based on the concept of Markdown by John Gruber.

• Website: PHP SmartyPants: http://michelf.com/projects/php-smartypants/
• Website: PHP Typographer: http://michelf.com/projects/php-smartypants/typographer/
• Website: SmartyPants: http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/
• Version: PHP SmartyPants: 1.5.1e (2005-12-09)
• Version: PHP Typographer: 1.0 (2006-06-28)
• License: PHP SmartyPants & PHP Typographer has BSD-style open source license.
• License: SmartyPants has BSD-style open source license.
• Lydia path: src/CTextFilter/php_smartypants_1.5.1e
• Lydia path: src/CTextFilter/php_smartypants_typographer_1.0
• Used by: CTextFilter

SimplePie

SimplePie by Geoffrey, Ryan P., and Ryan M. to read RSS feeds.

• Website: http://simplepie.org/
• Version: 1.3.1 (2012-10-30)
• License: BSD license
• Lydia path: src/CRSSFeed/simplepie
• Used by: CRSSFeed

lessphp

lessphp by leaf to compile LESS.

• Website: http://leafo.net/lessphp
• Version: 0.4.0 (2013-08-09)
• License: Dual license, MIT LICENSE and GPL VERSION 3
• Lydia path: themes/base/lessphp
• Used by: themes/base/style.php

The Semantic Grid System

by Tyler Tate/TwigKit to get grid layout through LESS.

• Website: http://semantic.gs/
• Version: 1.2 (2012-01-11)
• License: Apache License
• Lydia path: themes/base/semantic.gs
• Used by: themes/base/style.less, themes/base/style/semanticgs.less

GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter

by Nigel McNie, Benny Baumann.

• Website: http://qbnz.com/highlighter/
• Version: 1.0.8.10 (2011-02-11)
• License: GNU GPL v2
• Lydia path: src/CTextFilter/geshi_1.0.8.10
• Used by: CTextFilter

Todo.

Yes, a lot of things to do. Lydia is not very stable and this list is not nere complete, its more a memory management and wishlist for me when developing.

• Create view-directory and perform alternative load between view and site/view.
• Add tabs to module-manager and enable management of each module.
• Add source.php and enable viewing sourceode of modules.
• Add tab to module-manager to enable translation of each module, with connection to external translation service, such as google translate.

History

v0.3.x (latest)

• Updated lessphp to 0.4.0.
• Separated dbwebb theme from theme/base, moved to site/theme/dbwebb as child theme.
• Cleaned up base theme, removing filse not used.
• Correcting missing less variables in base theme.
• Included new version of style.php to support child themes using lessphp.
• Correcting $config['static_url'].
• Moved loadView() to src/bootstrap.php.
• Changed formatting of CTextFilter [book](should reengineer to remove from base).
• Added sharelinks to linkedin, twitter, facbook, google+ for articles.
• Added custom box in CBlog sidebar.

v0.3.95 (2013-10-21)

• Including information about author through a byline.
• Updated CBlog to make localised version for category and search work.
• Added printable version and print stylesheet for blog articles.
• Prune cached content when saving content.
• Enabled gzip and output buffering to speed up theme engine rendering phase.
• Adding as filter for content.
• Enabling to configuring cache through config.php.
• Adding column meta for authoring information to table User.
• Adding shortcode and shortcode [FIGURE].
• Updating CBlog to use url and work in two languages.
• Added support for static_url for a cookie-less domain.
• Disable gzip & buffer as default for delivering the resulting page.
• Corrected errors in plain installation with empty content.

v0.3.94 (2013-07-01)

• Updated CTextFilter with tags to be more like GitHub markdown.
• Added style to geshi sourcecode.
• Corrected performance issues with CTextFilter by introducing caching in CMContent using CCache.

v0.3.93 (2013-04-09)

• Fixed installation phase.
• Corrected errors with configuration of clean urls.
• Separated style between lydia and dbwebb in base theme.

v0.3.92 (2013-03-25)

• CForm to differ on empty values to get null instead of empty.
• Translated to swedish.

v0.3.91 (2013-03-22)

• Preparing to release version 2 of dbwebb.se and including all modifications of Lydia.
• Several enhancements com CMContent.
• Added RSS feed and search to CCBlog.
• Added CPageLoader and CMBlock.
• Upgrader SimplePie to 1.3.1.
• Added improved CForm.
• Refactored CCUser.
• New theme, base. To be the new base-theme and replace both grid and core.
• Installation phase added.
• Prepare gettext to work in non-gettext environment.
• Clean up by removing dependencies to dbwebb.se.
• Corrected bugs in CCAllSeeingEye and CMRSSAggregation when feed is empty.
• Translated to swedish. Not all strings are yet being translated though.

v0.3.07 (2012-09-04)

• alpha5 for dbwebb.se.
• Added more columns to footer in grid theme.

v0.3.06 (2012-09-04)

• alpha4 for dbwebb.se.
• Added textfilter [BASEURL] to make urls depended on [BASEURL] rather than hardcoded in text and articles.

v0.3.05 (2012-08-31)

• alpha3 for dbwebb.se.
• Added preg_match capability to routing table.
• Corrected. Menu to set selected when routing table is used for urls.
• Corrected. Show correct label in thumbnail blog page view.

v0.3.04 (2012-08-28)

• alpha2 for dbwebb.se.
• Added category for blog.
• Improved CCIndex as default controller.
• Improved caching with style.php.
• General improvements.

v0.3.03 (2012-08-24)

• alpha1 for dbwebb.se.
• Added site/functions.php and used it to show how to integrate Lydia and phpBB.

v0.3.02 (2012-08-24)

• Updated to latest version v0.3.8 of lessphp.
• Ability to protect pages.
• Creating directory js to store various JavaScript files that are included in Lydia.
• Adding JavaScript library Modernizr.

v0.3.01 (2012-08-20)

• Use as basis for website http://dbwebb.se as a live testcase. Still internal use.
• Included new version of SimplePie 1.3.
• Enabling multilanguage, i18n, internationalization, though GNU's gettext().
• Adding t() as the translation function to use.
• All language files in language. One .pot-file for all Lydia.
• Partly translated some modules to swedish for test.
• Adding module CCAllSeeingEye as a Lydia application for presenting aggregated RSS feed.
• Moving views to views-directory, can be overidden by placing view in site/views.
• Use LoadView() to load a view.
• Included PHP Markdown 1.0.1o, released 2012-01-08.
• Included PHP Markdown Extra 1.2.5, released 2012-01-08.
• Moved CHTMLPurifier to CTextFilter.
• Included PHP SmartyPants and PHP Typographer in CTextFilter.
• Many more changes such as CMBook, CInterceptionFilter, managing of modules and more.
• to many changes to mension, I need to get a stable base again when the site dbwebb.se gets up and runs this version of Lydia...

v0.3.0 (2012-05-23)

• Preparing to use Lydia in live site to show off RSS aggregation.
• Adding SimplePie version 1.2.1.
• Corrected CRequest to handle requests index/method which failed before.
• adding factory wrapper for external RSS aggregators, including Simplepie
• adding model for RSS aggregator
• adding view-directory in site
• added method for CreateUrlToController()
• added method for displaying error codes 404, 403 using ShowErrorPage()
• added config-item for debug timer
• added site_url in CRequest
• added CreateBreadcrumb() and keep track of memory and timeusage through page relaods.
• added get_language()
• added teaser() and slugify()
• modified theme_url() and theme_parent_url() to use site_url when url starts with /
• corrected visible newline character in user/profile.
• corrected: changed order when drawing menues to regions.

v0.2.24 (2012-05-07)

• Last change while in the phpmvc-course.
• Updating CMModules and CCModules to display information on a module's main class using Reflection API.

v0.2.23 (2012-05-07)

• Creating menues through site/config.php.
• Mapping menus to theme regions.
• Child theme in site/themes.
• Site specific controllers/models/modules in site/src.
• Sample website in site.
• Added delete of content.

v0.2.22 (2012-05-02)

• Enhanced installation procedure by adding one controller for installation, module/install.
• Added interface IModule for all modules to implement that can manage themself for install/update/delete.

v0.2.21 (2012-05-02)

• Added module management through CMModules and CCModules.

v0.2.20 (2012-04-23)

• Moved static data from themes/grid/functions.php to site/config.php.
• Added themes/functions.php get_tools() for a list of useful debug tools.

v0.2.19 (2012-04-23)

• Added typography matching vertical grid to theme/grid.
• Added reset.css.

v0.2.18 (2012-04-23)

• Updated CViewContainer and related items to map views to regions in theme.

v0.2.17 (2012-04-23)

• Integrated with semantic.gs though the new theme theme/grid.
• Included sematic.gs version 1.2 (2012-01-11).

v0.2.16 (2012-04-19)

• Integrated with lessphp version 0.3.4-2 (2012-04-17) and LESS though a new theme, theme/grid.

v0.2.15 (2012-04-16)

• Added filter to format CMContent as 'htmlpurify' using http://htmlpurifier.org/.
• Added external library htmlpurifier-4.4.0-standalone in wrapper CHTMLPurifier.
• Added LICENSE.txt as MIT-license.

v0.2.14 (2012-04-16)

• Added filter to format MCContent as 'bbcode'.
• Added function bbcode2html() in src/bootstrap.php.

v0.2.13 (2012-04-13)

• Added filter to format CMContet as 'plain', 'html' and 'php'. 'html' and 'php' is disabled in CMContent as default.
• Added function makeClickable() in src/bootstrap.php which formats links in text to .

v0.2.12 (2012-04-13)

• Added CCBlog to display all content of type 'post' in a blog-like list.
• Added CCPage to display content of type 'page' in a singel-page view.
• Added formatting of DateTime since using function formatDateTimeDiff() and theme helper time_diff().
• Lydia always set timezone to UTC. All time values stored in database is in UTC.

v0.2.11 (2012-04-11)

• Added handling for content with CMContent and CCContent.

v0.2.10 (2012-03-29)

• Created a sequence to create a new user user/create using the web as userinterface.
• Corrected: CreateUrl in CCobject did not return its result.

v0.2.09 (2012-03-28)

• Added server-side form validation to CForm.

v0.2.08 (2012-03-28)

• Changed name of database class from CMDatabase to CDatabase.
• Added hashing techniques for storing password. plain, md5, sha1, md5salt, sha1salt.
• Made sha1salt the default algorithm when storing passwords.

v0.2.07 (2012-03-27)

• Integrated with gravatar.com and created theme function to get the gravatar link.

v0.2.06 (2012-03-25)

• Added classes for CForm, CFormElement, CFormElementText, CFormElementPassword, CFormElementSubmit
• Made CForm use CFormElement and both implements ArrayAccess.
• User can save profile on user/profile.
• CMUser uses implements ArrayAccess.

v0.2.05 (2012-03-21)

• Corrected: Handling of incoming urls based on ?q=controller/metod and index.php/controller/metod.
• Added utility class CForm for form handling.
• Added login-form on user/login.

v0.2.04 (2012-03-19)

• Used Reflection API to show the available controllers and methods using the index controller.

v0.2.03 (2012-03-19)

• Made CMUser a part of CLydia and CObject.
• Created theme function login_menu().
• Created controller CCUserControlPanel.

v0.2.02 (2012-03-15)

• Uppgraded CMUser with groups and group-membership for each user.

v0.2.01 (2012-03-15)

• Added CMUser and CCUser to handle users. Created code for testing login and logout of user.
• Added inteface convenience methods RedirectToController and RedirectToControllerMethod in CObject.

v0.1.9 (2012-03-13)

• Added CMGuestbook as a model for the sample guestbook application.
• Rewrote code and separated between guestbook controller and model.

v0.1.8 (2012-03-05)

• Added CSession as a wrapper to $_SESSION.
• Enabled flashmemory in CSession for as a memory to live through pagerequests, useful to send feedback to users and showing debuginfo to the developer.
• Updated Guestbook to make use of the new features.

v0.1.7 (2012-02-24)

• Added a container for the views CViewContainer.
• Integrated CViewContainer in CCGuestbook, CLydia, CObject, and the theme handling.
• This makes $ly->data obsolete and to be removed in coming releases.

v0.1.6 (2012-02-24)

• Added interface to those classes that uses SQL, IUseSQL.
• Updated CCGuestbook to use IUseSQL.

v0.1.5 (2012-02-24)

• Introduced the database layer as CMDatabase.
• Showed how to use it in the CCGuestbook controller example.
• Enabled debug output from the database operations using settings in config-file and theme-helper get_debug().
• Created a default exception handler in bootstrap.php.
• CLydia creates and owns the databaseobject as $ly->db.
• CObject makes the database object available for subclasses through $this->db.

v0.1.4 (2012-02-23)

• Improved guestbook example to store messages in database using PHP PDO and SQLite.
• Added konfigurationsitem fpr database in site/config.php.
• Added site/data directory which should be writable bu the webserver.

v0.1.3 (2012-02-15)

• Added some style and an icon the the core theme.
• Added a guestbook application as an example of a controller using database and forms.
• The guestbook is fully working and stores entries in the session.
• Cope with querystring sent to controller and methods.
• Added theme helper theme_url($url) which prepends $url with the url to the theme directory.
• Added session_start() in CLydia.
• Use default timezone as defined in site/config.php, set in CLydia::__construct()

v0.1.2 (2012-02-15)

• One common baseclass for controllers and modules, CObject, holds access to CLydia through $this->
• Output from theme helper get_debug() is configurable in site/config.php.
• Wrapper htmlent() for htmlentities() to support character encoding from site/config.php.
• Remove all - and _ from the url before checking if method exists. Enables developer/display-object and developer/display_object to point to developer/displayobject.

v0.1.1 (2012-02-14) v0.1.0 (2012-02-14)

• All requests handled by index.php and using mod_rewrite in .htaccess.
• A base structure with bootstrap.php, frontcontroller and theme engine.
• Frontcontroller CLydia::FronControllerRoute() supporting varius url-constructs.
• A basic theme controller, CLydia::ThemeEngineRender(), with functions.php, style.css and template files.
• Managing base_url and introducing theme helper functions.
• 'CRequest' manages creation of internal links.

v0.01 - v0.03 (2011 december)

• This was the first release used in a course called dbwebb2.

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..: Copyright 2012 by Mikael Roos ([email protected])