MidCOM 3 and built-in WebDAV
There has been some discussion about the deployment model for the upcoming MidCOM 3 MVC framework for PHP and Midgard 2. My suggestion was to enable WebDAV on all MidCOM servers so content structures, configurations and templates could be moved between them with simple drag-and-drop.
This week we're having a MidCOM 3 coding sprint, and now we can already mount the MidCOM site, and with some clients also edit content. Locks also work transparently between WebDAV clients and the web editing interface.
WebDAV serving logic is implemented using PEAR's HTTP_WebDAV_Server.
More functionality will follow...
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Some Midgard roadmapping
There has been some discussion on how the different items in the Midgard roadmap fit together. Here is my company's view on how we see ourselves proceeding. Baseline: Midgard 1.8, MidCOM 2.8 and PHP 5.2 At least in our company we're trying to consolidate all customers to these version numbers. MidCOM 2.8 is a very capable (if heavy) platform that...
Content repository talk in FrOSCon
Content repositories can be useful for your application. In the PHP track of FrOSCon on Aug 22nd there will be a talk about this: Midgard2: Content repository for your PHP application Content repositories allow you to separate the actual front-end of your application from background processing tools. More than just their underlying databases, they impose common rules for data access,...