PHP API Framework

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DAVE is a minimalist, multi-node, transactional API framework written in PHP

Dave contains an end-to-end API test suite for TDD, a Task model, an Active Database Model, and a stand-alone development server (written in only PHP as well) to get you started.

Why lock the platform into 5.3 without making use of 5.3 features (namespaces would clean the structure up a little). Why not use getops for the command line arg processing rather than your own __parseArgs function. The framework seems like a odd mix of procedural and oop paradigms. And considering it's a framework (and transactional), why did you not use PDO for the database access?

I'm asking out of curiosity only because recently I've had a lot of PHP work on.

Hi Ray!

Those are exactly the types of comments I was hoping to get form posting here to help flesh this project out.

The main reason I stayed away from PDO is that I was trying to support both relational and non-relational databases (support for Mongo already). I certainly could have used PDO within the mySQL layer, but the next level of abstraction for the DAVE actions was the main goal. I very well may switch over to PDO to make the mySQL implementation into a generic 'relational' driver if I get enough comments/requests about it.

The version jump to 5.3 is new and was necessitated by some of the DaveObjects. I certainly will be using getops() instead. Thanks for the suggestion!

Wow, it looks great! Lots of features (CRON even!) and doesn't shackle you with MVC. Might be just the thing to reign-in my free-wheeling PHP style without being too restrictive.

There are plenty of those, like this: https://github.com/Mashaper/mashape-php-library

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