I'm getting ready to move in another week, and thought it was time to push a
new release out the door... before life descends into utter chaos.
Cgiapp 1.7.0 adds a plugin architecture (which has been present in the perl
version since last autumn). Plugins register with the class, and, once
registered, their methods may be called from your Cgiapp-based class as if
they were part of it through the magic of overloading. This allows for a
standard library of utilities to be written -- such as form validation (a
sample class for this has been provided utilizing HTML_QuickForm),
authentication, error logging, etc.
Additionally, I created a 'Cgiapp5' class that inherits from and extends
Cgiapp. Along with it is a 'CgiappErrorException' class that can handle PHP
errors and rethrow them as exceptions. Combined, the two create some very
elegant run mode error handling that simply isn't possible in PHP4.
Visit the Cgiapp website for
more information on Cgiapp; if you want to try it, download
it.
