N2F Yverdon: v0.2 Improvements
With today’s development release of Yverdon v0.2, I decided I would take some time to highlight a few of the smaller changes we’ve implemented in the next iteration of our PHP 5 framework.
MySQLi Database Extension
We were lucky to be working with Waterfall Data Solutions from the start of N2F Yverdon, so we’ve had some great testing done for us on some specific extensions and sets of core functionality. One of the biggest contributions that we received was massive amounts of test data for the MySQLi database extension. With all of the data we ended up doing a complete rewrite of the extension, and we still have more improvements that we weren’t able to get into the v0.2 release. The rewrite concentrated on resolving issues resulting from the buggy implementation of the MySQLi extension in PHP, as well as some irregularities we found when dealing with parametrized queries. This all leads to more secure interactions with MySQL through the extension, which is never a bad thing.
PHP 5.3 Compatibility
It makes us very proud to say that we sat down with the intention of making Yverdon v0.2 fully compatible with the PHP 5.3 RC’s, and we ended up changing about 5 lines of code in total. It’s very possible that we’ll be making more changes in the future to account for bugs we haven’t yet found, but at the least we’re already working hard to make sure we don’t fall behind the times in the PHP world.
Memcache Caching
Chris (ctd1500) put in a bit of work to add memcache functionality to our sponsored cache extension. This means that anything which uses the cache extension can be easily configured to take advantage of a memcache installation, including the template engine.
New Database Extensions
Another set of additions that have been taking a lot of time are the new database extensions we’ve added to our sponsored list. Now you have access to MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL through our new sponsored extensions. One of the last things we’re doing to the code is running these three new engines through a test routine that will be used on every release moving forward.
There’s a lot more that we’re working on releasing with the first stable release of v0.2, but we’ll save some of them for that time just to keep it that much more of a surprise. Hopefully you have a better idea of what we’ve been working on with Yverdon over the past 7 or 8 months.
- Andrew