[Solar-talk] Solar 0.23 released

[Paul M Jones]

Well, it looks like there's something wrong the PEAR installation on  
the Solar website; it's not showing anything right now.  Working on  
the fix.



On Aug 26, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Paul M Jones wrote:

> The new release is out; you can [download][] it from the usual
> location. As
> always, you should read the full [change notes][].
>
>    [download]: http://solarphp.com/index.php/docs/Main/DownloadSolar
>    [change notes]: http://solarphp.com/channel.php?
> package=Solar&release=0.23.0&downloads
>
> Read on for some highlights.
>
>
> Breaks
> ======
>
> There is one backwards-compatibility break in this release.  
> Previously,
> the `Solar_View::partial()` method would output the results of the
> partial template directly. Now it just returns the results. This means
> that you need to change all calls from `$this->partial(...)` to `echo
> $this->partial(...)`.  This change makes the partial() method act like
> all other view helpers.
>
>
> New Features
> ============
>
> Protaculous Ajax
> ----------------
>
> Clay Loveless has been hard at work adding view helpers that interface
> to the [Prototype][] and [Script.aculo.us][] JavaScript libraries.  (I
> have taken to calling this popular combination "Protaculous". ;-)
>
>    [Prototype]: http://prototype.conio.net/
>    [Script.aculo.us]: http://script.aculo.us/
>
> These JavaScript packages provide all sorts of Ajaxy Web 2.0
> buzzword-compliant goodness, but you generally need to access them in
> JavaScript directly. Clay's view helpers for the Control and Effect
> libraries of Scriptaculous let you access them via PHP. The helpers  
> keep
> track of what effects and requests you make, and load all the  
> necessary
> files for you automatically.
>
> Clay has built the helpers so they use "unobtrusive JavaScript". This
> means that you address HTML elements using CSS selectors instead of
> using inline scripts on elements.
>
> To show off some of the possibilities, Clay has added a new demo app
> under `Solar_App_HelloAjax`.
>
>
> JSON Support
> ------------
>
> Clay Loveless has also added a new Solar_Json class for encoding and
> decoding
> JavaScript object notation; this helps when passing data via Ajax
> requests.  (The work is based on code from Michal Migurski, Matt  
> Knapp,
> and Brett Stimmerman, in their [Services_JSON][] package.)
>
>    [Services_JSON]: http://mike.teczno.com/JSON/JSON.phps
>
> Although full JSON support will exist in a future version of PHP,
> this class will help users who need the functionality right now.   
> (Clay
> has gone to a lot of effort to make Solar_Json behavior functionally
> identical to the upcoming PHP JSON extension.)
>
> Many thanks, Clay, for your continuing efforts on this portion of  
> Solar.
>
>
> Markdown
> --------
>
> [Markdown][] is a simplifed syntax and text processor that converts
> structured text markup to XHTML, written by John Gruber.
> [PHP-Markdown][] is a direct port of Gruber's original Perl code to  
> PHP
> 4 (and non-strict PHP 5) by Michel Fortin. Now the same text- 
> processing
> capability exists in Solar as `Solar_Markdown`.
>
>    [Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
>    [PHP-Markdown]: http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/
>
> The major benefit of the Solar version over previous  
> implementations is
> that it is "plugin aware", much like the PEAR [Text_Wiki][] package.
> Each syntax rule is a separate class; you can mix and match syntax  
> rules
> to fit your particular needs without having to rewrite the entire
> processing and rendering engine.
>
>    [Text_Wiki]: http://pear.php.net/Text_Wiki
>
> Solar now comes with three Markdown rule sets:
>
> * `Solar_Markdown` proper, an implementation of the original markup
> rules
>    in the Perl and PHP versions.  It provides for headers, lists,  
> strong
>    and emphasis, links and inline URIs, code examples, and much
> more.  In
>    general, it leaves HTML in place, so it may not be suitable for
>    untrusted or anonymous environments.
>
> * `Solar_Markdown_Extra`, an implementation of Michel Fortin's
>    [PHP-Markdown Extra][] that extends the basic Markdown syntax to
>    support tables, definition lists, and id-able headers.
>
>    [PHP-Markdown Extra]: http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/
> extra/
>
> * `Solar_Markdown_Wiki`, which provides Mediawiki-style page links,
>    interwiki links, and code documentation constructs, in addition to
>    tables and definitions lists from the `Solar_Markdown_Extra`
> rules. It
>    is very aggressive about escaping HTML for output, which makes it
> more
>    suitable for untrusted environments.
>
> (Note that this email is written in Markdown syntax; the blog post I
> will make later will be converted from this syntax to XHTML. Also,
> TextMate users can access the "Blog - Markdown" bundle and preview the
> XHTML transformation as they are writing.)
>
>
> --
>
> Paul M. Jones  <http://paul-m-jones.com>
>
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>
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