Symfony 2.0 vs ATK3.8 – part 3 – The Controller

This post continues comparison of ATK and Symfony 2.0. This post is based on features described in Quick tour – page 3

Symfony 2.0 vs ATK3.8 – part 2 – The View

This post continues comparison of ATK and Symfony 2.0. This post is based on features described in Quick tour – page 2

Symfony 2.0 vs ATK3.8 – part 1 – The Big Picture

Based on PHP5.3 – symfony 2.0 is coming soon. They provide a very good review of the cool stuff they pack in v2. I decided to write an article comparing those with similar features of ATK4.

ATK3.8rc1 released

I am glad to announce that ATK3.8 based on the changes I have previously mentioned as “pathfinder branch” are now been made into 3.8rc1 release. This will be one of the few releases we will have before going into 4.0

BTW: Further ATK repository is stored at ActiveState FireFly:

http://firefly.activestate.com/romaninsh/atk4/

Download: amodules-3.8rc1.tgz amodules-3.8rc1.zip

Template tags coming soon

Often problem in a project is slightly customising existing template. This normally requires to change template/…./shared.html file by saving it locally and updating paths manually. There is a way coming to workaround it.

Form and enter..

I have came across old code in the Form and Field implementation and it’s basically implementing form submit when enter is clicked. I was thinking about what would be the right behavior. Therefore I am calling to your opinion here.

How to extend JS in ATK

This post continues to explain how to use JS most efficiently in ATK. Read first part first.

ATK is branched for refactoring

I have been working on a refactoring in a separate branch. Right now it looks stable, so I’m putting more details in here:

https://agiletech.ie/svn/amodules3/branches/romans/pathfinder/

(you can try new branch by using svn switch)

How JS layer works in ATK

Half year ago we have introduced jQuery / Chain into amodules3. It allows us to clean up a lot of older code and at the same time give developers a way to do many new things in a flexible way.

Ordering elements

In ATK each object you add is inserted as a child to some other object. They end up in $object->elements array, however there is no easy way to rearrange it.