I just want to update everyone on the status of the framework. It is still on schedule for the February 26th release!

As we countdown to the public beta release, I want to keep you informed of some exciting functionality that’s being added.

Functionality

Along with the JSON controller, a new XML controller has been added. This allows you to return nearly anything from an action and it will automatically convert it to XML, send the proper content-type header and provide the data to the client. Here is an example of how it would work:

<?php
 
class MyController extends \Fever\Controller\Action\AbstractXml
{
    public function getTestData()
    {
        return array
            (
            'name' => 'Will Fitch',
            'attributes' =>
                array(
                'height' => 76,
                'hair' => 'brown',
                'eyes' => 'brown'
                )
            );
    }
}

This will, in turn, produce the following XML document to the client:

<results>
    <name>Will Fitch</name>
    <attributes>
        <height>76</height>
        <hair>brown</hair>
        <eyes>brown</eyes>
    </attributes>
</results>

Now I’m sure there are those out there that are screaming, “But I want to customize the name of the elements!!!”. No problem! There is a method withing the AbstractXml controller called “setXmlElement” which accepts an instance of SimpleXMLElement. This will be used when converting data provided into XML.

This is all thanks to a new component called “XmlConverter” which lives in the \Fever\IO\Xml namespace. It follows the chain-of-command pattern and iterates until it finds the correct data type provided. Here are a list of converters available for iteration:

• ArrayToXml
• BooleanToXml
• NullToXml
• NumberToXml
• ObjectToXml
• StringToXml

All of these are separate entities, so they can be used independently.

I’ll continue to update throughout the upcoming days before the public beta!