Restructuring large parts of the folder structure is painful
Recently, Phil and I were looking at a new system that he is developing for Septuro – where the autoload cascades across the application, parent applications, plugins and finally onto the system core. This is a really cool system that lets you override existing objects with new objects, or even extend existing modules. It is taking the concept of object oriented programming in a new direction, and applying those concepts to entire file structures.
While working on this, we noticed that the plugin directory wasn’t structured in the ideal way, and while looking at the folder structure, we also finally decided to do what Phil has long suggested – kill the element folder and relocate its contents into an object and module folder. I created a new branch today – folder-restructure – where I will be doing all of this tweaking. This really is a pain, but better to do it now than deal with the pain of it later.
I should have this branch finished and reintegrated into the trunk before the end of the day, and then I can get back onto working on the long awaited form plugin. That plugin is going to be really, really cool. I’m excited to get down into working on it. It takes my previous work on the dataTemplates and abstract objects and puts them in a new light. An object can be converted into a form really easily. Just tell the form what object it is working with, the object already contains information on how to be displayed in a form, plus it’s validation rules, and then give it a callback function to execute on completion – it’ll be sweet.
