Adventures In Programming

For those interested in data access libraries for PHP, the OpenExpedio project is well worth a look at. It will be part of the core for the upcoming release of MODx CMF. I haven’t had a chance to delve into the code to deeply, so any comments about your experiences with this library will be greatly appreciated.

OpenExpedio is our name for open eXtensions to PDO. It’s a light-weight ORB (object-relational bridge) library that works on PHP 4 and 5, and takes advantage of the newly adopted standard for database persistence in PHP 5.1+, PDO. It implements the very simple, but effective Active Record pattern for data access.

It has been a while since I’ve updated Adventures in Programming. One of the reasons for this is that I haven’t been out and about scouring the internet for development related articles as much as I should have been. The other is that I decided to learn a new scripting language called LUA. It is a very popular language used very often as a scripting engine in games, ie. Farcry and World of Warcraft. I’ve managed to created a few addons for World of Warcraft that can be found here.

I’m also delving deeper into the nuances of the newest version of PHP and am also getting AJAX and Web Services under the belt.