I wrote this long comment not because I felt I had to justify myself but because there are too many unuseful wars within the free software environment which should be avoided.

anyway, we’ll talk about those after the 3.0 release, we still have a lot of work to do :-)))

and so on.

Somewhere down the line, with all the xml config files and the elaborate directory structures, J2EE lost its way among coders without huge biceps and triceps.
You’re bringing back the good things in Java to PHP, albeit via inspiration from jQuery.

Thank you! :-)

Other interesting things can be found on the blog of Rob Rohan where he explains a simple idea behind “Simple MVC ASP”.

It might look a toy before P4A, but the simplicity angle is VERY important.
The code is released in public domain, so taking a concept from there isn’t going to rub anyone the wrong way :-)

Now all we need is Ruby-style “5.times”…. Iterators, simulated by a global function or class.

Maybe o(5)->times(‘callback_fn_name’) … ?
(‘o’ is short for ‘object’ like h() or $() in Prototype.js)

Another really useful addition to this code-simplifcation goal is the classic ASP structure “With … End With” :

With obj do
.count = 5
.max = 10
.min = 1
.name = “foobar”
End with

Which might mean something like this:

$this->setCount(5)
->setMax(10)
->setMin(1)
->setName(‘foobar’)
;
//each of setCount(), setMax(), etc. returns $this.

So, mutiple “$this->” are removed so that code looks less redundant.

Right now, there is so much of :
$this->foobar->do_something($abcd);
$this->foobar->do_something_else($efgh);
$this->foobar->do_something($ijkl);
$this->foobar->do_something($mnop);
————————
With .. End With

What say? makes sense?