[Solar-talk] Getting started

[Antti Holvikari]

On 1/15/07, Rodrigo Moraes <rodrigo.moraes at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/15/07, R. Christopher Harshman wrote:
> > Greetings all!  I'm a complete newbie to SolarPHP, though I've been
> > using PHP since '99.  While I have some experience with tiered web
> > frameworks (I just wrapped a large project in Perl using Class::DBI,
> > CGI::Application, and HTML::Template), I'm pretty lost as I try to
> > find my way around Solar.
> >
> > I've got the basics done from the website / documentation (Example/
> > setup and working properly), but I have no idea where to go from
> > here.  Are there any further tutorials, etc., online yet?  If not so
> > much, if anyone here would be willing to help me walk through the
> > basics, I'd be happy to write up some documentation in hopes of
> > benefitting the next person in my -- or similar -- shoes...
> >
> > Thanks much!  Looking forward to really getting started!
>
> Hi, Chris.
> I don't know of any other tutorials besides those from Solar site.
> What worked for me was to duplicate and play with the main application
> that comes with Solar, the Bookmarks app, to build my own.
>
> Another nice app to follow is the "Aqua Music Database" [1] from our
> friend Antti, and I think it may be interesting because it uses a more
> common model approach (it was hard for me to understand the "content"
> model concept which drives the Bookmarks app).
>
> Unfortunately Aquamdb was not updated to Solar 0.25 until some time
> ago, but it really needs few changes to work with 0.25 and if you are
> interested we can tell you what is needed.

Our friend Rodrigo sent me his patch for Aquamdb that upgrades Aquamdb
to Solar 0.25.0 but since Antti is so lazy he hasn't applied the patch
to Aquamdb ;-)

In the mean while you can take a look at some of my code in
http://code.google.com/p/abovo/. Also take a look what other Solar
users[1] have come up with.

And welcome aboard Chris! :-)

[1] http://solarphp.org/wiki/SolarUsers

-- 
Antti Holvikari <http://phphalo.com>