jQuery Lightbox, ActiveRecord, and good times
There haven’t been any updates to the to the jQuery Lightbox in a couple of weeks. Hopefully, i’ll get to update the script this weekend, and knock out the last few bugs people have brought up. The script still needs a new name, as well. Any takers on that one?
I put down PHP for a few days last month, and tried to pick up Ruby On Rails again. Certain things about rails just seemed to nicie to have. After a good bit of playing around, i’m convinced that it’s a decent framework. I’m not convinced enough, however, to drop 7 years of PHP experience to jump ship just yet. The main selling point of Rails, for me, was ActiveRecord. In my experience, PHP doesn’t have any great libraries that offer the same functionality. After doing a bit of reading (http://sneer.org/archives/2005/01/02/active_record_in_php_5_part_1/), however, I’ve adapted my own set of classes that seem to be working just as I want them to. They handle implementing the Active Record design pattern nicely, and also handle ORM and various other points of business logic (validating input, enforcing datatypes, automating outputs) quite nicely. I’m implementing them in my latest project at work. If it goes off well there, i’ll most likely bring them online for people to critique / improve. In fact, I believe i’ll do that this weekend anyway. No harm, no foul, right?
Anyway, jQuery Lightbox will be up in the near future, and i’ll offer a compressed version along-side the regular version, which will hopefully keep some people happy.
Cheers!