There and Back Again

I just released HTML_AJAX 0.2.1, if your running 0.2.0 you’ll want to upgrade immediatly since this fixes a bunch of bugs I added in that version.

The main changes are:
Bugs:
Remove debug message when throwing an exception
Fix problems with async calls
Fix broken content-type detection
Stop trying to run an init method when the init flag isn’t set
PHP required version moved to 4.1.0 which is what it should need

Features:
A basic debug class has been added, allowing you to write PHP errors to a file
HTML_AJAX.replace now works async

Also there is now a mailing list for HTML_AJAX.

HTML_AJAX 0.2.0 is out. There were a number of changes most of them on the JavaScript side.

The code is now released on the lgpl so thoses of you with GPL apps should feel comfortable using it now.

I don’t have time to write another tutorial showing off the new changes but if your looking a good place to start is with the new HTML_AJAX_Request class in JavaScript. All AJAX requests happen by creating an instance of this class and then running it through HTML_AJAX.makeRequest. If your looking to integrate your own complex widget this is the place to start.

The changelog has some more information.

Also im hoping to get the PHP side fully stabilized soon so we can move to a beta. If anyone has time I would appreciate an API review, mainly on HTML_AJAX and HTML_AJAX_Server.

Finally i’d like to drop the PHP dependency to something lower then 4.3.0, if you’ve used HTML_AJAX on 4.2.x or something else let me know. Once i’ve had confirmation it works i’ll lower it.

The roadmap has also been updated

The meeting is tomorrow 7:00pm at Walt’s TV in Tempe, be sure to invite anyone you know that might be interested.

Were having two new things at this months Meetings. Eric Thelin will start the meeting out giving us an overview of his what he found at the recent Microsoft PDC conferences. The other new item item is our first Roundtable.

Also we have a great presentation about Database abstraction by Jon Roig.

Meeting Timeline –
Tuesday September 27
7:00 – Microsoft Update by Eric
7:15 – DB Abstraction with PEAR::DB Jon Roig
8:00 – Roundtable: PHP Architecture Members: Josh, Eric, Brock, Travis
8:45 – QA Session
9:30ish – Social Hour(s) at Old Chicago

Round Table Questions:
What are your thoughts on class/function namespacing ie (PEAR style HTML_AJAX)
Do you build frameworks or libraries
How do you manage external code (PEAR stuff, adodb, smarty etc)
How do you manage config information

I hope to see lots of new faces