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Introduction

The library classes used in the Seagull framework basically fall into the following groups:

  • Workflow
  • Utility
  • Task
  • PEAR

Developing with Seagull involves building modules that include 1 or more manager classes to implement business logic. Building managers is eased by using the above-listed library resources. For a typical project you will probably only ever use the Workflow, Utility and PEAR libs.

The following sections explain the library groupings and describe the basically functionality of each class.

Workflow Classes

The workflow classes are Controllers and template helpers, you won't need to modify these.

Class name Availability Methods Description
SGL_AppController default
* run 		The AppController is used to organise workflow for particular application types. You will probably use similar controllers for each application you build, although workflow can be easily customised. See the unit test controller versus the Seagull one for ideas on how to customise.
SGL_Output default
The SGL_Ouput class is known as a TemplateHelper? in other contexts, it wraps methods used by the template engine to transform the data into, eg, html.
SGL_Wizard default
* validate
* process
* display
* maintainState 		The Wizard class is a specialisation of the Manager class, use it to create wizard workflows in your applications.

Utility Classes

Utility classes are what you use in your managers to manipulate system, application and user resources. Availability refers to whether you need to include the class or not, anything labelled as 'default' is available within the application scope, like default classes in, eg, java.lang. 'Requirable' libs need to be included.

Class name Availability Methods Description
SGL default

Provides a set of static utility methods used by most modules
SGL_Request default

Wraps all $_GET $_POST $_FILES arrays into a Request object, provides a number of filtering methods
SGL_Config default

Config file parsing and handling, acts as a registry for config data
SGL_Registry default

Generic data storage object, referred to as $input. Holds references to Url, current Request and Config singletons
SGL_DB default

Mostly used as a DB resource singleton, also provides dsn building method
SGL_Url default

Provides url related functionality, derived from Net_URL and uses a parser strategy
SGL_HTTP default

Provides HTTP functionality including redirects
SGL_HTTP_Session default

Handles session management, most methods are static
SGL_String default

Various string helper methods
SGL_Date default

Provides various date formatting methods
SGL_Array default

Provides array manipulation methods
SGL_Inflector default

Performs transformations on resource names, ie, urls, classes, methods, variables
SGL_Delegator default

PHP 4/5 compatible class for aggregating objects
SGL_Util default

Various utility methods
SGL_Category requirable

Wrapper to SGL_NestedSet, used to manipulate Categories
SGL_Emailer requirable

Utility class that wraps PEAR::Mail, provides convenience methods for sending HTML emails
SGL_TaskRunner requirable

Used for building and running a task list
SGL_NestedSet requirable

A lightweight wrapper to PEAR DB_NestedSet that bypasses DB_NestedSet for most methods
SGL_Download requirable

Wrapper around PEAR HTTP/Download class to workaround some limits of that class
SGL_Item requirable

Acts as a wrapped for content objects
SGL_Sql requirable

Provides SQL schema and data parsing/executing methods
SGL_Install requirable

Provides various static methods required for install routine

Tasks

All tasks are optional, configurable, and can be ordered according to need.

The process tasks below implement the Intercepting Filter pattern, each filter must extend SGL_DecorateProcess and acts as a filter pass on the Request object.

Class name Availability Group Description
SGL_Process_Init default
pre-process
SGL_Process_AuthenticateRequest default
pre-process
SGL_Process_BuildHeaders default
pre-process
SGL_Process_CreateSession default
pre-process
SGL_Process_DetectBlackListing default
pre-process
SGL_Process_DetectDebug default
pre-process
SGL_Process_DiscoverClientOs default
pre-process
SGL_Process_ResolveManager default
pre-process
SGL_Process_SetupLangSupport default
pre-process
SGL_Process_SetupLocale default
pre-process
SGL_Process_SetupPerms default
pre-process
SGL_MainProcess default
main process
SGL_PostProcess default
post-process
SGL_Process_SetupNavigation default
post-process
SGL_Process_SetupBlocks default
post-process
SGL_Process_SetupWysiwyg default
post-process
SGL_Process_GetPerformanceInfo default
post-process

The install tasks below are simple units of work that can optionally take an argument, ie $data. Each must extend SGL_Task or a specialisation of it.

Class name Availability Group Description
SGL_EnvSummaryTask default
install
SGL_Task_GetFilesystemInfo default
install
SGL_Task_GetLoadedModules default
install
SGL_Task_GetPearInfo default
install
SGL_Task_GetPhpEnv default
install
SGL_Task_GetPhpIniValues default
install
SGL_Task_SetupPaths default
install
SGL_Task_SetupConstants default
install
SGL_Task_SetBaseUrl default
install
SGL_Task_CreateConfig default
install
SGL_UpdateHtmlTask default
install
SGL_Task_CreateTables default
install
SGL_Task_LoadDefaultData default
install
SGL_Task_CreateConstraints default
install
SGL_Task_VerifyDbSetup default
install
SGL_Task_CreateFileSystem default
install
SGL_Task_CreateDataObjectEntities default
install
SGL_Task_SyncSequences default
install
SGL_Task_CreateAdminUser default
install
SGL_Task_InstallerCleanup default
install

Interfaces and Abstract Classes

  • SGL_Manager
  • SGL_Observer
  • SGL_Observable
  • SGL_View
  • SGL_Task
  • SGL_OutputRendererStrategy
  • SGL_ProcessRequest
  • SGL_DecorateProcess