I have decided to release a sneak preview of a PHP Rapid Application Development framework I have been working on, which is currently named fluidic. The name comes from the name of the application I was developing that spawned the framework, but seems more appropriate for the development framework.

Fluidic is designed to be used with PHP and MySQL and provides rapid List/Edit/View style interface which is extremely customisable. Filters/Search and custom buttons can be implemented easilly and with a little more coding subforms and sublists and other custom code components can be implemented.

It also currently supports pop-up calendar for date entry, customisable formatting and verification functions and an extenable framework for plugging into various interface events.

There is little documentation available for fluidic at the moment, but I intend to develop the documentation, including more working examples in the near future. It is currently aimed at experienced PHP developers who will be able to gain an understanding of how to implement systems utilising fluidic by reading the sample code.

If you are interested in contributing to the fluidic project, please contact me.

You can find information and the current code base at my fluidic page.

While I do not officially support URLList, nor was I planning to further develop it, a requirement for a slight change in functionality arose, which led to the fixing of a couple of long-lasting bugs, and the addition of this new functionality.

The new functionality is the ability to output it’s data as a list of URLs as HTML links (a href’s), the bugs that were fixed was that it previously ignored archive pages, which are now supported.

URL List version 2.0

My previous posting was a post to ‘Ask JaredQuinn’ to assist a user of the WP Support forums with their enquiry about setting the default post date in Word Press posts.

While this is still not technically a “plugin” because it requires modification to WordPress core files (there are no current hooks for these, yet) the closest I can get to a plugin has been released as in now available here.

This plugin allows you to specify any value that the strtotime() PHP function accepts, this includes strings such as:

• now
• next thursday
• in 1 week

These can be inserted into the Post form as the default timestamp and used to set the default without needing the user to click the ‘Edit Timestamp’ box.

See the link above for full details.

Plugin Details

Comments can be made on the download page.

Due to the fact that I am no longer using OptusNet - I am no longer supporting the OptusNet Usage Plugin for FireFox.

I encourage someone to take up the framework and expand upon it, however in the more recent months some (probably) better designed/more flexible solutions have appeared.

The existing page and downloads will remain online. They will not be updated until further notice, nor will support be provided for them.