Development

Subversion Access

Code in SVN should be considered unstable.

svn checkout svn://knowledgehead.com/outlet/outlet-orm/trunk

Changelog / Roadmap

v0.1

~~Basic CRUD functionality.~~ Done
~~One-to-many and many-to-one relationships.~~ Done
~~Support for MySQL, SQLite, and SQL Server.~~ Done
~~Basic identity map.~~ Done

v0.2

~~Better error handling.~~ Done
~~Better management of plural names.~~ Done
~~Default values and expressions on insert.~~ Done

v0.3

~~Fix some bugs with the Outlet->delete() method~~ Done

v0.4

~~Fix a bug with one-to-many relationships (reported on the mailing list)~~ Done

v0.5

~~Fix a bug with the Outlet->delete() method (again)~~ Done

v0.6

~~Improve connections to SQL server using both the odbc and dblib driver~~ Done
~~Fix a number of bugs when using strings as a primary key~~ Done
~~Fix other minor bugs~~ Done

v0.7

~~One-to-one and many-to-many relationships~~
~~PHP-5.2's DateTime support~~
~~Fluent-interface query API~~
~~Eager-fetching~~
~~PostgreSQL support~~
~~Support for using getters and setters instead of public properties for entity attributes~~

v1.0 (currently RC1)

~~Switch to PHPUnit~~ Done
~~Remove E_STRICT notices~~ Done
~~Basic NesteSetBrowser (modified preorder tree traversal)~~ Done
~~Performance improvements~~ Done

v1.5 - 2.0

Single-table inheritance
Composite primary keys
PEAR installer
Soft deletes
GUI designer for outlet-config.php which reverse engineers a database
Oracle support
Unit-of-work
Improved documentation

Possible features for later releases

Eclipse plugin that uses DTP for the reverse engineering of the database
Plugins
Nested tree sets (possibly as a plugin)
Basic validation system (possibly as a plugin)
In-memory cache (possibly as a plugin)