Just saying hello. I am a MetaL[newbie] (of course). Very excited about MetaL. Amazed about the low traffic here and the fact that MetaL is not so well known. ...
Hello, ... Yes, the greatest problem is that I have not found the time to document MetaL itself to make it more interesting. Anyway, MetaL itself is not very...
Hello Manuel, I found MetaL because I was searching for something like MetaStorage. I am glad I found it. Exactly the thing that I need. By releasing tools...
Hi Manuel, (You have so many classes but no forum! ;-) I hope you don't mind asking me a question about the XML Parser / Writer classes in this forum... ) I...
Hello, ... I started this project because I have immediate needs for it. If it becomes useful to others, fine. Actually my greatest concern on making it an...
Hello, ... Yes, for security reasons, in my servers I avoid using .php extensions for pages to not claim attention that I am using PHP. ... Actually the...
Hi Manuel, My idea of an application ... 1 SQL Class 2 Object Data Class (collection class of row objects, you know the concept) 3 FrontController Class 4...
I used the question more as an example. I meant isn't it good practice one class - one file ? I remember when I was coding VB4 and 5 I made .cls for a table...
Hello, ... Ok. I think you should be prepare for something that goes further than what you expected. Metastorage generates all the classes you need, starting...
Hello, ... I think so. ... Personally I do not like many interdependent classes. That is the essence of bloatware. Sometimes you just want a very small service...
Super...! I'll see how flexible it is because I don't want to be constrained by the framework I choose. Another alternative I was (am) investigating as well...
Hi Manuel, I have spent time on metal / metastorage. Reading all the docs, and messages here... Browsing code. And so on. I installed it and I didn't came any...
Hi Jim, have you tried the "basic"-cms example packaged with metastorage? As far as I remember (I tested it just after the release) it was quite easy to build....
Sebastian Roebke
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Mar 26, 2003 6:58 pm
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Hello, ... I don't know where you looked but if there is something that I invested a lot of time was in producing useful documentation for Metastorage. There...
Hi Sebastian, Röbke sounds German (or perhaps Austria, Switzerland), is that correct? I mention it because Germany seems the centre of PHP. At least I can...
Hi Manuel, Thanks. I don't give up just like that, I'll have a look at it the coming week. My freetime in the weekend was spent on upgrading to PHP 4.3.1, ...
Hi I've just downloaded the MetaStorage an MetaL package and wanted to try it out. I could generate the classes and the schema file without any problems, but I...
Manuel Holtgrewe
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Apr 22, 2003 1:52 pm
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Hello, ... Sorry, I have not had the time to document that properly. ... You are on the right track. What you need to do is to create a local_options.php file...
Hi Okay, I got the most current version from CVS. Where do I have to set the user for the SQL connection? Regards Manuel Holtgrewe...
Manuel Holtgrewe
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Apr 22, 2003 2:56 pm
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Hello, ... Metastorage generates code to interface with Metabase. So, you just need to create the install/setup/local_options.php file with the connection ...
Hi I just tried to build my first more complex component definition file and I got the error: Error: support to add to variable reference collections is not...
Manuel Holtgrewe
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Apr 28, 2003 12:15 pm
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Hello, ... I think you are just missing specifying in the collection definition the reference variable of the class of the objects of the collection that ...
Hi I created a Schema that uses tables with uppercase letters. This makes problems when querying with MySQL. I get: Table 'minitourney.tournament' doesn't...
Manuel Holtgrewe
grin@...
Apr 28, 2003 3:30 pm
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Hello, ... You are supposed to install your schema with the installation class that Metastorage generates. Metastorage uses the same case that you use to ...
Hi ... I did this. Strange, I just deleted the files metastorage created and rebuilt them and now it works. Regards, Manuel Holtgrewe...
Manuel Holtgrewe
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Apr 28, 2003 3:54 pm
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Hi Are there query types not yet documented? For example, I'd like to count some Fields without querying them all first and the do a count() in PHP. -- ...
Manuel Holtgrewe
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May 2, 2003 3:15 pm
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Hello, ... No, not yet but it is a kind of function that could be added very easily. I can add it right away if you have an urgent need for this. I am just not...