[Solar-talk] Solar_View questions

[Rodrigo Moraes]

On 7/11/06, Paul M Jones wrote:
> So from that perspective, using absolute paths isn't really part of
> what Solar thinks you ought to be doing.  Does that make sense at all?

Yes, and I'm more and more getting used to this perspective and to the
way Solar is organized.

> If you intend to use Solar as the basis for your projects, I have to
> recommend using Solar_View over Savant, simply because it's better
> integrated with the rest of Solar.

Right after I've sent the other email, I've moved to Savant and
minutes before I've moved back to Solar_View, because of the helpers
and the integration with other Solar parts I want to use (User, Auth,
Role, Locales). Also the adherence to the Pear naming convention makes
a big difference and is more consistent to me since I'm also using
Pear, besides Solar and ZF. ;)

> <promotion class="shameless self">Solar has a lot more of what you
> need to get off the ground in a web app than Zend does at this point:
> authentication, roles, access control, form builder, etc.  The
> Solar_View form helper, for example, lets you take a Solar_Form
> object and output a form in one step:  echo $this->form
> ($solar_form_object). The integration of the classes helps with this
> a great deal.</promotion>

You are right, clearly Solar is more well structured as a system and
it teachs a lot about how to organize a base that can be shared by
many different apps. What interest me most in ZF are the
controller/router and the database layer, and of course the "pick what
you want idea" that makes easy to get started, but the way Solar is
well tied is more what I am looking for. Here is my challenge, to pick
the best of both. Right now I have a MyLibrary_Auth_Adapter_ZendDb to
use with Solar_Auth and this framework mix is starting to become
funny. :)

thanks a lot,
rodrigo moraes / brazil