CodeIgniter's Future

[eluser]vlad_ci[/eluser]
I agree with Randy, SPL, and now 5.3 features such as closures, name spaces should be used
throwout the framework for as many things as possible

They overall promote design examples of how to build 'large' systems.



But I think we as community we might have failed to communicate to CI developers exactly how we would like to
see the new PHP features be used in CI as well.

In other words, just saying to use 'SPL' may not be enough, but show how they can be used for database record
management, may be would score better response.


While I would not be personally using it, but implementing a complete
UI development paradigm using say Dojo-toolkit with its RESTful stores would be a huge show case for CI.


And to that extend, if CI could have designed in 'Server' side OO scheme for
Dojo Item*Store, Dojo-deffered and DataGrid.layout would essentially allow
to hook-up all Dojo widgets (including the DataGrid) to CI backed 'Model'

And then in The View part a developer would just have to define where the widgets are positions on the page
and tell what widget uses what 'data store' (dojo concept for a structured Data model for a given widget)