MODx + Kohana = Mohana... MMM

1. great looking bridge. (bummer evo, not revo though )

2. I personally really like the looks of the kohana validation lib --- I wonder (out loud) if it could peacefully co-exist with -- or be a drop in replacement for -- the xPDO 2.0 xPDOValidator class? I’ll have to poke my nose around Mohana a bit to see what you’ve done, and poke my nose into the xpdo validator a bit more extensively too.

3. Thanks for posting/sharing this.

I, as most people, have a lot more experience with Revo. Also I think Evo is still too green - Once it reaches a full release then I’ll evaluate it again.

I, as most people, have a lot more experience with Revo. Also I think Evo is still too green - Once it reaches a full release then I’ll evaluate it again.

I think you got these backwards

I’m working on some validation / form-generation stuff. The Kohana libraries should be able to be integrated with Revo easily since it’s all OO stuff... you’d just have to extend the class.

foreach (ORM::factory->where(array('status'=>true,'age>'=>20))->find_all() as $user) {
  echo View::factory('user/short_bio',array('user'=>$user));
}

For basic form generation, I’d recommend looking at Formo - a module. Again, the current version between the next version is like night and day, but it’s still very handy. Formo 1 has a lot of quirks, especially in radio/checkbox/select elements, but it’s very usable.

The basic approach in Mohana is to load the kohana classes in the MODx execution path - then the autoloader of Kohana takes care of the rest. When you want the ORM - you just do a

foreach (ORM::factory->where(array('status'=>true,'age>'=>20))->find_all() as $user) {
  echo View::factory('user/short_bio',array('user'=>$user));
}

anywhere in MODx where php can be used. I don’t have time now, but I’d really like to see someone take this approach and rewrite Ditto/Wayfinder using Kohana. One of the _major_ problem with MODx is the lack of a real templating solution that can handle control structures and loops (yes, I’ve tried PHx). Using Kohana with Views, brings this into the realm of possible. With a little bit of creativity, you could make a plugin to save chunks into the view folder of the Kohana installation and then create views inside MODx. I don’t remember how the MODx admin handles php in chunks, but if not, then I was thinking a templating solution like Twig.

Unfortunately, I don’t have time right now to implement these ideas - but my goal is that by opening it up, other people can start contributing code and turn MODx into something even more powerful.