Introducing Scorpio
By Dave Redfern (Writer)
Published: 07 Mar 15:51 in Scorpio
What is Scorpio?
Scorpio is the current working title of the framework (engine) that powers Madagasgar.com. It is the culmination of several years design, re-design and further design. More specifically; Scorpio is an object-oriented, light-weight PHP5 framework that has a component structure and many RAD tools to make it easier to get stuff done.
Scorpio has several third party projects integrated into it, namely:
- xAjax for ajax functionality
- Smarty a PHP template engine
- and TinyMCE for the text editor.
Links to each project can be found on the Copyright page.
The main part of the framework is the MVC layer - an implementation of the Model View Controller design pattern that is all the rage these days.
Other components include command line tools and a CLI framework for building applications. A couple will be included with the framework when it is released.
Where can I get it?
With the roll-out to my main hosting, it is almost ready for a wider release. Documentation and test cases are lacking at the moment. A project home has yet to be found but once done, the current SVN repository will be migrated.
So right now, it is not available for download.
How soon before a release?
That largely depends on how well this roll-out goes. There are quite a few known issues still to be resolved but the basic shell is proving to be pretty sound. Barring no massive delays a pre-release alpha / beta should be available sometime in April, with hopefully an SVN un-stable head available at some point in May (depending on hosting).
Further articles looking at some of the features will come online later this month.