Re: Controllers - Request to View

Great. So things like allowing Front Controllers in to run in sub 
directories and allowing you to organize your Action Controllers in a 
hierarchy are done. I'll have to check it out.
Kevin McArthur wrote:
> The new zend controller seems ready to roll to me. I'm using it 
> successfully in our development environment and haven't found any 
> problems with it that exceed my usage.
> I'm testing out zend_config now, will report how that goes; it looks 
> pretty solid so far. (Might have had a problem with a deliberately 
> null'd key, but im going to investigate before raising any noise on 
> the list)
> These two classes should probably make core for 0.1.4, but 0.1.5 will 
> be a fairly significant non-api changing service release for most of 
> the components. Eg we've got a lot of cleaning up to do.
> The best thing that could probably be done now, would be tests and 
> docs which are severely lacking for most of the new stuff, though with 
> a little hacking one can figure it out.
> Also someone should really update the db docs to explain that fetchAll 
> is not the best way to work with sql queries <grin>. the docs don't 
> fully explain the implications of buffering a large resultset to 
> memory like this, nor do they properly document how fetch() by itself 
> will work on a row cursor and actually fetch data in a buffered way, 
> thus keeping memory usage to a reasonable level. In fact I don't think 
> fetch() is even documented at the framework (though it is in pdo, 
> which is fully exposed, if we're going to fall through to pdo code, we 
> should either mirror the php docs or at least make it really clear 
> that its a PDO object and can be worked with by any of the standard 
> pdo methods + plus zfw improvements and link over to the pdo manual)
> $0.02
>
> Kevin
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Thompson" 
> <cxthompson-xwVYE8SWAR3R7s880joybQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Jayson Minard" <jayson-C1q0ot2/XZ0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <fw-general-wwOhfgvld6hpLGFMi4vTTA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 3:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [fw-general] Controllers - Request to View
>
>
> > Jayson Minard wrote:
> > > > > Our goals for next week (and the week after) are to get in a good 
> > > > > solid
> > > > > list of proposals that fill in remaining gaps in the framework, 
> > > > > mainly
> > > > > looking at the chain of events that occur from receiving a request
> > > > > through rendering the view.
> > I was wondering how things are going on these classes that are 
> > executed on each request. I have checked the incubator and 
> > repository, and not seen much change. I spent a good amount of time 
> > in this code and know it pretty well. I suggested some improvements 
> > early on, but Mike said supporting tests needed to be written before 
> > work started.
> > For me the problem is that code of this type has so many subtleties 
> > and so many far reaching ramifications that it is difficult to 
> > effectively discuss (unlike components which is more modular). There 
> > are a lot of things that need to be done to this group of classes to 
> > enable the rest of the framework to move forward, yet the core has 
> > remained fairly static since the first release.
> > What is the current status? It would be good to assign a small group 
> > to focus on balancing act of moving these core classes to the next 
> > level. I would be interested -- as probably would others (Jared, 
> > Martel, Kevin ?).