April 2007


It’s been a long time in the making but aedPHP is finally here. aedPHP is the little brother of aedCFC, which in a few months has gone from nonexistant to nearly 800 downloads. Knowing that plus the fact that half of my development is in php I knew it was time for aedPHP.

aedPHP is a small class that creates a clean add/edit/delete interface for intranets(no, not a cms, this makes individual files). You could call it a “crud” but it seems to be a little more worthy than that. Its great for adding on to existing intranets or creating your own custom cms in minutes. After doing one or two it will take you longer to create your table in the database than having an interface for it. Templates and tinymce make the interface extremely easy to customize and add elegance. Documentation isn’t out just yet but it should be extremely similar to that of aedCFC!

Its database capabilities are limited to mysql since thats the only environment I have to work with, BUT the class is set up where all you need is to create your own database class(I already have the template needed, just fill in the db specific code). At that point aedPHP can do everything from reordering database entries to hierarchial database tables!

Well I finally got vista and I have to say the Imaging design is very nice and pleasing to the eye. Everything so far seems to install pretty normally with no tricks except about 100 alert messages to run, download or change anything(I counted, it literally takes 6 alert messages to RENAME one text file, rather dissapointing).

Another serious problem I have encountered is that my mouse will disappear after I leave my computer idol for any length of time. Twice today I have rebooted because of this problem. Then after the second reboot I decided run my updates to see if there was a fix,.. well I’m not sure yet but my monitor did decide to turn off on me while I was using it(something my monitor has yet todo becuase I have it set to turn off after twenty minutes of inactivity and it never will). After a manual reboot my bottom menu bar happily decided it wanted to be placed on my secondary monitor.

I must note I have not made any system changes at all, only setting my screensaver and installing the usual aim, eclipse, ff, etc.. Not sure if there are some display settings I am missing but I would surely like to find it!