Adventure-(PHP-)Framework

This release provides a redesign of the configuration mechanism, several performance optimizations, API clean-ups, and better PHP 5.3.X support. Besides, the CacheManager is able to address more complex cache keys, the GORM API was enhanced to ease relation queries, and the form validation was enhanced with XSS protection mechanisms.

This release is focused on the improvement of the programming interface (API). Form support has an intelligent upload field and flexible CSS formatting for validation errors. To present validator-specific error messages, the special validator concept is introduced. The user management module introduced with 1.7 now features a component to manage visibility definitions for any kind of aplication. Now the O/R-Mapper GORM can handle additional data types for index columns to store bigger amounts of data, and object configuration offers the ability to define additional indices.

This revision comes up with a revised version of the form support on the basis of taglibs. Now the generic definition of validators and filters on the basis of the observer pattern is supported and forms can be more easily adjusted to one's own needs. The OR mapper "GenericORMapper", previously added in release 1.9, was extended with tools to automatically set up and update a database. Part of the release's performance optimization were optimizations in the core of the frameworks and the rework of the integrated BenchmarkTimer.

This stable release in the 1.10 series switches development entirely
to PHP5. (A compatibility version for PHP4 will be available at the
beginning of 2010.) Beneath some clean-ups and refactorings, several
performance optimization tasks guarantee excellent performance. The
biggest technical innovation is the introduction of the "dependency
injection container", similar to the objection initialization of SPRING
(Java). This release also adds many features which were discussed in the
developer forum.

This release solves some problems, that occur with PHP 5.2.10 and 5.3.0 having problems with the overloading/inheritance model. Thus, the APF filter API was refactored to bypass this bugs. Besides this, all changes of the 1.10-RC1 release are contained in this version. These are the change to PHP 5 development, clean-ups and small refactorings, performance improvements, and the introduction of the DI container.