Welcome to the first monthly news item. From now on we will try, on the first of each month, to publish a post which details all the new developments, big and small, which have taken place within the PHPCR ecosystem.
News
Documentation
David Buchmann wrote a great and extensive tutorial on PHPCR some years ago, but it has been hiding in the phpcr-docs repository.
We have now adapted this tutorial to the restructured text format and made it into a book instead of a tutorial. It is hosted it on Readthedocs.org.
This will become the offical location of all future PHPCR documentation.
There has also been a proposal for hosting a restructured text version of the JCR spec on the documenatation site
Marmelab PHPCR Browser supports Doctrine DBAL
The Marmelab PHPCR browser now officially supports Doctrine-DBAL
Jackalope
- Discussion about concurrent writes in Jackalope-Jackrabbit
- Discussion about throwing exceptions with invalid parameters: The PHPCR spec specifies to return null on invalid connection parameters - but this makes it hard to debug - should we violate the PHPCR spec or make an amendment?
Development Summary
PHPCR Utils
- Fixed bug with escaping fulltext search literal when converting from QOM to SQL2.
PHPCR Shell
- Alpha 3 was released on the 9th of June.
- New option added to show defined but unpopulated nodes and properties.
- PR for showing node contents in XML with syntax highlighting.
- PR to support embedding the shell in Symfony applications (we are thinking about replacing all the PHPCR Util commands in the DoctrinePHPCRBundle with the PHPCR Shell).