Project release history

Porte 0.2.2 released February 23th, 2008

Documentation: New API section
Table: New delete method; filter in count method
Iterator: Rename PorteList to PorteIterator
Position: New method "setPosition" (int, "first" or "last")
Record: Lazy loading of records; all dynamic methods using model method mechanism
Types: Type "date" renamed "timestamp"; new type "year", "date", "time"; boolean stored as tinyint
GIS: Related code moved to new plugin
Dojo Store: Add label support; object properties encoded as json
Utils: Auto creation of database of not exists
Model: New option "extended" to method getProperties

Record: Refactoring of method "toArray", now return all the keys if not an association and not lazy loaded
Associations: Use model method functionnalities instead of events
Model: New method "getMethods" which list all the method available to a type of record
Json: New plugin "Json"
Associations: New methods "setRecord" and "setRecords" in many-to-many associations with join strategy
Connection: Set a default date timezone if one is not available by the system

Model: new functionnalities to register, retrieve and call methods
Records: new type "double"
Assocations: Improved one-to-one assocation: model is now complete, get and set methods tested on both sides
Validation: New property url to validate correct url
Events: Now use valid php callback
Records: Introduce new plugin "Temporal" to add creation and modification date automatically
Records: New method isDirty to check wether a record has recieved changes or not
Assocations: Improved one-to-many support
DojoStore: Introduce new plugin PorteDojoStore which help converting a list of record into a Dojo data store format
Position: Plugin "order" is now renamed "position"

General: "Porte.php" is renamed "porte.php"
General: Multi database support in a same connection
General: When applicable, methods now return the current object
Record & List: New options "depth", "by_type" and "by_property", default configuration available in model->table[to_array]
Record: Remove method $record->execute in favor of $record->connection->execute
Model: Redesign property configuration access
Associations: Simplified configuration and improved documentation
List: Add methods "toArray" and "toJson", get methods return an array of results, others methods than get propagate on stored records

Documentation: new website
PorteTable: move table related methods from "PorteRecord" to "PorteTable"
PorteIterator: list of returned records are now instances of PorteIterator instead of arrays

Refactoring: Introduce new classes "PorteConfig", "PorteConnection", "PorteModel", "PorteEvents", "PorteModel", "PorteHierarchy", "PorteOrder", "PorteRecordEvents", "PorteTable"
Events: introducing static global events, arguments now always passed by reference
Order: option "order_by" in method "find" now honors the ordering of records if not set, many bug fixes
Record: move all method prefixed by order and table (use the property way instead, eg "$record->tableUpdate()" is now "$record->table->update()")
Model: remove the enrich method and introduce the model property
Events: rename events keys (eg, events call from records are now prefixed by the keyword "record_")

Introduction of the static events functionnalities
Hierarchical functionnalities implemented using the "nested set model"
Fix issue to prevent the attempt of saving transient values
Initial code to implement the one-to-one relationship
New "tableFields" method
New "include" option to the "toArray" method
The "toArray" no return an array with the "attributes" and "associations" arrays merged into one
Option "return_query" used in method "find" and its related method is renamed "return_sql"
Method PorteUtils::type now return an array with keys success (bool) and value
Validation: remove class ValidationEntity and use UserEntity instead, add properties
Order: introducing two new methods "orderPrevious" and "orderNext"
First usage of PorteException
Handle default field values
Now throw exception while calling non-existing method

New type "json" used to serialize and return an array inside a blob field
Add "compressed" option to the function "toArray"
Fix issue involving incorrect use of primary key in some many-to-many associations
Introduction of methods toJson and fromJson

Enhancement to has_many associations (add multiple associations)
Enhancement to has_many associations when field type is transient (add, toArray and fromArray methods where not implemented)
Documentation relative to associations
Documentation relative to array conversion methods