Pundit changes. Major overhaul of the file-layout.

I did a huge-ass overhaul of the file-layout in Pundit which breaks every thing.. Or just a tad more than that.

So why did I do it? Developer-friendliness. You. Yes, You.

If you were to start developing an application using Pundit you had to:

• Create the directory structure needed for a functional Pundit installation. And this wasn’t really documented how to do best.
• Get a copy of Pundit
• Setup a bootstrap file with tons of stuff you might not understand
• Setup some setup-schema which could be done in various more of less undocumented ways
• Setup a rewrite file
• More fiddling with file-layout to ensure everything works as planed.
• Start coding

And really, who wants to do all that. No, so the new file-structure already contains everything including a skeleton for your application with easy overloading of Pundit features. So now you only need to do the following:

• Get Pundit: svn co http://svn.uniteit.dk/pundit/trunk myapplication
• Edit myapplication/application/config/config.php
• Start coding

See, much nicer.

The actual new file-layout

index.php
.htaccess
application/
    .htaccess
    models/
    controllers/
    views/
    library/
    public/
        .htaccess
        js/
        css/
library/
    .htaccess
    Pundit/
    Solr/
    Smarty/
scripts/
    .htaccess
public/
    .htaccess
    js/
    css/

Which, if you have used RoR, CakePHP or Pundit prior should be pretty self-explaining.

Other changes

New and improved configuration method

Or, it’s actually not new, just actually used for something now.

The standard way of doing configuration of Pundit is now using either application/config/config.php or application/config/config.ini (a config.xml will maybe follow) which will be autoloaded and parsed by Pundit.

I will post about all the stuff you can influence by changing configuration-settings later, but for now the ones listed in the default config file will do.

Rewrite or PATH_INFO?

I’ve added support for using PATH_INFO instead of mod_rewrite if your host doesn’t support mod_rewrite. And as a matter of fact I’ve set this behavior as the default one for Pundit. If you need to change it back to the mod_rewrite way, set application.use_rewrite to true in your configuration file.

Shorthand-functions

Since I’m beginning to use PHP-templates more lately I was getting bored of all the PunditRegistry::get(’sth’) or PunditRegistry::get(’config’)->get(’application’, ’sth’); calls. So I’ve added some shorthand-functions which you can activate by setting core.use_shorthand to true.

So far I’ve only added p_reg() and p_conf() which corresponds to the two calls listed before.

PunditBlog demo-application

Of course I’ve updated the demo-application to correspond to the latest changes..

-fangel

May 12th, 2007 | Pundit

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