[Solar-talk] Newbie questions

[Rodrigo Moraes]

On 10/11/06, Matt M. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just starting to check Solar out and am really impressed with how it's
> come along.

Welcome. Matt. :)

> Where can I see examples of how to use the debug, log and user classes?

- The user class is basically a wrapper to the authentication / role /
access classes. The authentication class is used in the Bookmarks
example app. The other two ones are still a work in progress, I think.

- The log class is used in the Test Suite.

- The debug class... does it exist?

> Anyone know if there is a pager class that works well with the Solar
> SQL_Table class?

Some time ago I've started this:

    http://solarphp.org/wiki/TiposViewHelperPager

I want to come back and review it, probably entirely, but I can say
I'm using it and it works well and produces nice pagination lists.

> Also, I'm using an adjacent list style tree (id, parent_id) and was
> wondering if there is anything avaiable for that? I just want to be able to
> simple display a tree/ul list.

There was a helper to build ul/ol lists, but it was not released
because Paul was not happy with it. I'm using it, and I'll commit it
for you to my repo.

> I'd love to contribute and have some ideas on a new controller class.

I hope we can coolaborate on this! Please take a look at the Front
Controller I've been working on:

    http://solarphp.org/wiki/TiposControllerFront

> How do I sign up to be a developer? :)

You can start contributing to our recently created wiki:

    http://solarphp.org

With time, people will have SVN accounts to use as playground, and I'm
sure the main developers will consider including classes developed by
the users, if they are worth. :)

I have started my own repository with "Solarified" classes (following
Solar style and conventions, at least that is the idea):

http://solarphp.org/wiki/RodrigoMoraes

You can start your repo and host it, for example, on Google Code,
until Solar provides user repositories:

http://code.google.com/hosting/

... and then let us know what you are doing, by listing your classes
on the wiki and writing to the list. Please do so!

If you have any troubles with the classes, don't hesitate to ask.

regards,
rodrigo moraes / brazil