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Aura.Di 2.x to 3.x Upgrade Guide

Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

3.x has a very minimal BC break. But if you are not sure what are they, then you may feel the pain. I am trying to document most of them, incase I missed please edit and send a pull request.

I will try to eventually pushed to the main Aura.Di repo.

BC Breaks
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Instantiation
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The way di container is instantiated has been changed from

Improving Environment Values in Aura v2

Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Aura v2 framework probably have missed a better way to handle environment variables. But that doesn’t make you stall. Things can be improved ;-).

Assume you are already using aura framework and is at root of the project.

We are going to make use of vlucas/phpdotenv , alternatives are there if you are interested to experiment.

`1`	`composer require vlucas/phpdotenv`

Edit the file config/_env.php and add Dotenv::load(/path/to/.env); to the first line. If you have not modified anything it will look as below

Speed Up Configuration in Aura v2

Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Aura v2 added auto resolution in-order to help lazy people writing configuration manually. Even though it was introduced to help, it introduced a few issues.

So auto resolution will be disabled in the future. Some of the complains/suggestions are how to easily write the di configuration.

So introducing you FOA.DiConfig

Installation
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`1`	`composer require foa/di-config`

Usage
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vendor/bin/di-config-dump
Usage : vendor/bin/di-config-dump /real/path/to/file.php
Usage : vendor/bin/di-config-dump /real/path/to/directory

Example 1
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Let’s assume you have

Getting Started With Aura v2

Mon, 06 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday aura framework v2 stable released.

Lots of complains about documentation or missing documentation. So this is a quick start. Probably a five minutes walk through. Learn and change to make it better.

Creating your project
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Create the project using composer.

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composer create-project aura/web-project quick-start
cd quick-start

The minimal framework don’t come with any sort of view integrated. Let us use aura/view, the two step templating with the help of foa/html-view-bundle.

Using Aura.Input Forms Inside Slim Framework

Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Rob Allen wrote about Integrating ZF2 forms into Slim. I did write how you can use Aura.Input and Aura.Html to create standalone form for PHP. This time I felt I should write about integrating aura input inside Slim.

Let us install a few dependencies aura/input for building the form and aura/html for the html helpers. You of-course can skip not to use aura/html and build your own helper. I also purposefully left not integrating the powerful Aura.Filter , but you are not limited to integrate any validator you love inside Aura.Input .

Aura Framework v2: The Missing Manual

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Aura has an awesome collection of libraries for different purpose.

It has components for authentication, cli, request and response, router, dependency injection container, dispatcher, html, view, event handlers, validation, extended pdo, query builders, sql schema, marshal, build and modify uri, http, internationalization, session, forms, includer.

If you are new to aura, there is probably something you may want to figure out yourself.

Some of the components have version 1 and version 2 releases. There is a question of which branch corresponds to which version.

The v1 packages are in develop branch and v2 over develop-2 branch.

Extending Plates With Aura.Html Helpers

Tue, 13 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Aura.Html provides HTML escapers and helpers, including form input helpers, that can be used in any template, view, or presentation system.

In this post I would like to give you a short introduction to Aura.Html and how you could use with Plates a native php templating system like Aura.View.

Aura.Html was extracted from Aura.View helper functions of version 1, when we at aura noticed that people who uses Aura.Input may need some html helper functions and they may not be using a templating like Aura.View, but some other templating system.

Installing an Aura Framework Project via Composer

Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In this tutorial I am showing how to install aura framework project v2 via composer.

composer create-project -s beta aura/framework-project path-to-project

Aura.Framework_Project helps you to build web and cli applications.

If you need only web based application then Aura.Web_Project is what you need.

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If you need only cli, then Aura.Cli_Project helps you.

Using Aura.Dispatcher in Silex

Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

2 days back Paul M Jones wrote an awesome post A Peek At Aura v2 – Aura.Dispatcher the idea behind Aura.Dispatcher and how it was born.

So today, let us try to integrate Aura.Dispatcher with Silex. This post is inspired by the comment made by Luis Cordova. Thank you.

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composer create-project silex/silex --no-dev silexproject
cd silexproject
composer require aura/dispatcher dev-develop-2

I hope you have composer installed else get composer.

I am not going to explain each and everything, the code is self explanatory. You can move the classes according to your wish (may be to another folder). I am trying to show a simple use case.

Looking at Aura v2

Sat, 28 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

If you have noticed recently, there have been tons of commits from Paul M Jones for aura version 2.

More standalone repos born. Everyone should try and give feedback as much as possible.

Interesting stuffs split from Aura.Sql v 1.3 are

Extended PDO,

As the name says, it is an extended version of PDO. Good thing is it is PHP 5.3 compatible.

If you have worked with PDO you know the good and bad. One of the difficulty is, it cannot use an array for an in clause.

Aura Framework Released

Thu, 19 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

It is a great feeling, and one of the happiest moment in my life when aura releases its stable framework.

Aura is one of my first framework, which helped me to learn the inner working of a framework, how to create a framework, rather than playing with full stack framework.

If you are interested to learn or contribute in the next version of Aura join the group.

The Book on Aura Moves to the Manual

Sat, 07 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Some days back I wrote about a WIP of The Book on Aura

It got some attention and pull requests.

Akihito Koriyama have already started to convert the documentation to Japanese.

And today I am happy to announce that it is officially going to the manuals.

Contributing
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Fork https://github.com/auraphp/auraphp.github.com and contribute to the manuals.

The manuals are in different languages. Currently
Akihito Koriyama is working on Japanese translation.

The Book on Aura

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

There has been lot of requests to show how the individual packages in aura, can be made use inside the framework.

So today I am happy to announce that there is a work in progress to make the framework documentation better. I have already started the work on the same.

You can read the chapters online.

The examples used in the book are also online at
https://github.com/harikt/Example.Package

I hope Something is better than nothing.

Aura.Web: A Page Controller for MVC

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

If you are new to the concept of MVC, or if you are planning to build your own framework, probably Aura.Web help you to do the same.

Here is the article in phpmaster.com Aura.Web: Aura’s Page Controller for MVC.

Probably you may also like the article Web Routing in PHP with Aura.Router.

Aura System Released Beta 5

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday Paul M Jones tagged the beta5 for the system repo.

So you can download the system from http://auraphp.com/system/downloads/

via composer
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Creating aura framework based projects has been made easy with composer. You can run

php composer.phar create-project -s dev aura/system your-directory

What it does is almost similar to git clone and installing via git as below

Standalone Forms for PHP

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I wrote about Standalone Forms and Validation. It may need a little bit knowledge on how the Aura.Filter works. But that is a good start if you want to know how you can integrate the pieces of Aura.

Today I think I need to show you the very minimal approach you can take to build the form and validate your form. If you want to use a powerful validation and filtering use something like Aura.Filter or bind your favourite components which does the validation Respect, Symfony2 Validator, valitron and filtering with something like DMS-Filter.

Standalone Forms and Validation in PHP

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Update : I wrote a very minimal approach here

Recently Aura.Input was tagged Beta1. I would like to show you how you can use Aura.Input, Aura.Filter and Aura.View to create form.

The Aura.Input itself contains a basic filter implementation. As shown in earlier post Aura Turns 2

But in this post let us use the power of Aura.Filter. As Aura.Input doesn’t have a rendering capability you may need to use Aura.View as templating system ( see Using Aura.View ) or use the helper classes provided by Aura.View ( see below Without using Aura.View completely ) or create your own helper classes to render the same from the hints ( see Hints for the view ).

Aura Turns 2

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Looking over the commits on Aura.Router, Aura.Signal etc you will notice, aura project has turned 2.

And today, I would like to introduce you, the new born baby still under active development and refactoring based on user feedback, the form library for php, Aura.Input.

The Aura.Input, doesn’t have a rendering functionality. But you can always use Aura.View or create your own helpers.

A basic filtering based on closure exists in Aura.Input. But you are not limited, you can use your own filtering components or integrate Aura.Filter.

Aura.Http Request and Response

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Aura.Http package provide you the tool to build and send request and response.

Instantiation:
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The easiest way is

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$http = require 'path/to/Aura.Http/scripts/instance.php';

What it gives you is an object of Aura\Http\Manager. If you want to create manually you can look into the instance.php

Building your Response
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Probably you may not have bothered too much on building the http response either the framework does it for you, or until you need to send the correct response.

Aura Framework Releases Beta 4

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Aura.Framework released Beta4. In this release Aura.Framework has extracted the Hello Word package and renamed it as Aura.Demo.

You can get the system as a whole from http://auraphp.github.com/system/downloads/

Read about the release from blog post and join discussion at auraphp group