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AOP & Pointcuts - rfulcher - 12-17-2014
I am asking this question of the general community to get a feel if anyone would be interested in this feature.
I came from a background of Java-Spring-AOP. One specific feature I would see as a great addition to the framework would be the implementation of Pointcuts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointcut
I would like to get comments on how this could be done and the best way to to it. I have read over this article on how someone implemented it in CI (http://www.sitepoint.com/explore-aspect-oriented-programming-with-codeigniter-1/). But would like to pose that we do something like this more permanent.
Is hooks the best way to do this? Is there a better way? It is worth suggesting this to be put into core at some point?
Does any other PHP framework have this?
I personally will implement this in my own projects soon but wanted to try and do something that would benefit CI in general.
Thanks
RE: AOP & Pointcuts - NightTiger - 12-19-2014
If you are familiar with Spring framework then there is a PHP version of it: Go! AOP framework . It's a standalone AOP implementation for PHP with rich pointcut grammar and fastest load-time weaving.
Available at GitHub at https://github.com/lisachenko/go-aop-php
RE: AOP & Pointcuts - maxbrokman - 12-21-2014
If you are used to Spring I think you would be better served with a more enterprisey framework. This sort of behaviour can be achieved with Laravel/Symfony's route filters (blocks to run before and and after a controller method) and event system (pub / sub)
RE: AOP & Pointcuts - rfulcher - 12-26-2014
(12-21-2014, 05:13 AM)maxbrokman Wrote: If you are used to Spring I think you would be better served with a more enterprisey framework. This sort of behaviour can be achieved with Laravel/Symfony's route filters (blocks to run before and and after a controller method) and event system (pub / sub)
I understand what you are saying. I am using Codeigniter specifically because I don't like the overhead of Spring and the required environment on the server. I still do work in Spring for clients and prefer codeigniter much more (pure personal preference) . Also I have a large application that I have in Codeigniter that I will not be migrating so I want to add this feature to it. I did notice that Laravel could do it so I really hope they would like to put it into CI as well.
RE: AOP & Pointcuts - rfulcher - 12-26-2014
(12-19-2014, 02:00 AM)NightTiger Wrote: If you are familiar with Spring framework then there is a PHP version of it: Go! AOP framework . It's a standalone AOP implementation for PHP with rich pointcut grammar and fastest load-time weaving.
Available at GitHub at https://github.com/lisachenko/go-aop-php
I did see that. I don't want to switch from CI since I have a large application built in it. Can Go! AOP integrate or can the methodology apply to CI?
RE: AOP & Pointcuts - Rufnex - 12-27-2014
AOP is not so common in php, so i think there is not used to often. There was an article on sitepoint with 3 parts. I think this will give you a good starting point for your project:
http://www.sitepoint.com/explore-aspect-oriented-programming-with-codeigniter-1/
And there are libraries arround the web for aop that you can use with ci as thierd party
http://exarphp.com
https://github.com/AOP-PHP/AOP
https://code.google.com/p/php-aop/
RE: AOP & Pointcuts - jlp - 12-31-2014
AOP sounds interesting, but definitely more enterprise-y.
It might be possible to implement using CI, but I get the impression that 80% of the functionality could be handled through hooks or some sort of event mechanism.
Why not write up an RFC addressing how you would see something like that working inside CI?