New Update to Picora

All right, I recently posted some info about Picora and I had my own bitches and gripes as usual. I am one of the few who prefer their frameworks to actually be Rails clones. Sue me, I liked Rails and just hated deploying it! Either way, a friend of mine Chris Pittman has posted some interesting news over at his page. Lets get started with some skinny.

Chris is probably, apart from the developers, the leading source of info when it comes to Picora. While Picora might be dead in the water as a project it is actually one of only two, that I know of, PHP 5 only MVC frameworks. Chris has done some pretty amazing things with the framework and has now released some code that while it is unsupported and young might still be useful to some people out there.

Chris has released code to help generate scaffolding in Picora. For peeps that have been using other frameworks this might be extremely useful for you. I used scaffolding in Rails but never used it in Code Igniter, although i did use it to some extent with Cake. Either way, head on over and get some scaffolding code and probably the only available copy of the Picora framework, since their site has been down for quite some time now.

Also keep a look out on Chris‘ blog as their might be some good info on Picora over there. I know i promised to post some info but I have been deep into getting my mind back in the C mode and working with Objective-C. I can promise that i am definitely rusty when it comes to memory management, spoiled by the PHP i guess . So keep checking his blog for info and maybe someday I will get around to writing the tutorials that i promised.