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Swiftlet 3.0

ElbertF — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:38:00 +0000

Three years ago I released an early version of Swiftlet, a light-weight PHP framework built for speed and security. Over time however, a lot of functionality was added and started to suffer from feature creep. My original intention of creating a maintainable framework that was easy to pick up was a bit lost.

Last Sunday I had a spur of inspiration and decided to start over. With a slightly different vision, a better understanding of MVC and experience gained with the project I managed to finish it the same day. The result is about 150kB of code including documentation.

If you’re unfamiliar with the model-view-controller approach to programming Swiftlet might be a good starting point. The code is quite simple and hopefully the documentation makes the concept understandable.

Source code

Swiftlet on GitHub

Swiftlet is released under the GNU Public License.

JavaScript Tetris

ElbertF — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:11:08 +0000

Because I have nothing better to do with my time I wrote a Tetris game in JavaScript. I know there are plenty out there already but it was fun to make and it brought back some memories (I wrote my first Tetris game in DOS when I was 14). Coincidentally, Tetris just turned 25.

I released it under GPL, feel free to grab the code from the source and do whatever you like with it.

Play the game at elbertf.com/tetris

Swiftlet 1.0.0 Stable

ElbertF — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:51:32 +0000

Swiftlet, the light-weight PHP framework that I’ve been working on for a while, is now stable.

Feature-wise not much has changed since the Beta and Release Candidate cycles but the code has been thoroughly tested and improved where possible. If you’re planning on building a PHP website, give Swiftlet a try.

I moved the project page and documentation away from Google Code, if you go to swiftlet.org you’ll find the new page. It’s powered by a documentation system that I custom coded (dubbed Pintail). If there is any interest I will release the code behind it as Open-Source as well.

Swiftlet Beta

ElbertF — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:17:52 +0000

Swiftlet is now in beta, after 15 alpha cycles I’m confident that it’s now pretty much feature complete (there core that is, there will be plenty more plug-ins) and relatively stable.

One of the most important recently added features is the plug-in installer. It checks for compatibility with the core code and creates and populates database tables with a click of the mouse. Plug-ins that don’t require a database connection don’t need to be installed; they’re plug-and-play (and Swiftlet runs fine without a database).

I also added plug-ins to handle user sessions and authorization. This should make it easy to create a website that requires a login system.

Download: code.google.com/p/swiftlet/downloads/list

Swiftlet — light-weight PHP framework

ElbertF — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:48:55 +0000

I just released an early alpha version of Swiftlet, an Open Source, light-weight PHP framework released under the GPL license.

It’s targeted at developers who want to built simple websites that don’t require large and complex frameworks, but do want a solid base to work from. Swiftlet provides basic security features such as user input sanitizing, is highly extensible thanks to the deeply integrated hook system, completely Object Oriented and separates logic from design (MVC).

Even the most basic features such as connecting to a database and output buffering are implemented as plug-ins. This means they can be modified, extended and removed without hacking into the core code.

Website: http://swiftlet.org