New Recess PHP Framework Release: v0.12

Posted Mar 31, 2009 by Kris Jordan | Comments ( 0 ) | Filed in: Release | | | | |

Announcing a new maintenance release on the 0.1x line of the Recess PHP Framework.

Included in this release:

• Fixed sporadic behavior when text editors like emacs create temporary files in src directories
• Improved support for JSON as an input from POST/PUT requests.
• Improved installation experience that detects availability of PDO, SqlitePdo, and MySql PDO.
• jQuery included in distribution for off-line development support.
• 10 other minor bug fixes.

This should be the final maintenance release on 0.1x barring unforeseen troubles. Remember to report any bugs to our ticket system over at lighthouse: http://recess.lighthouseapp.com/projects/19507-recess-framework/overview

Download v0.12: Zip / Tarball

Next Up: Recess v0.20

We're in full stride working on the next major release which will be Recess 0.20. This previous blog post covered the major features in depth. To summarize, here is what is on deck:

• Revamped Infrastructure in PHP Views
  
  • Layouts - no more include('header')/include('footer.php')!
  • Partials - rendering snippets
  • Helpers - commonly used output methods
• New Extensibility Points
  
  • Wrapped Methods - think "Aspect Oriented Programming"-lite
  • Custom Annotations - write your own, roll into a plugin
  • Plugins - allow developers to share commonly used components
• More RESTful PHP
  
  • Robust content-negotiation
  • Improved ACCEPTS header support
  • View selection respects requested content-type
• Model Improvements
  • Validations - exploiting the new extensibility points!
  • Nestable boolean conditions

Recess 0.20 is turning out to be the most significant release since the public preview opened up back in December! Subscribe to this RSS feed and follow RecessFramework on Twitter for the most up-to-date notices on 0.20 in upcoming weeks.