Development Roadmap

The following is a rough outline of planned releases and features for the future of the OpenAvanti framework.

1.3.0-beta

  • Overhaul of MVC
    • Enhancement of Request class
    • Addition of Response class
    • Addition of View class
    • View file encapsulation
    • Layout file implementation
    • Looser coupling between Dispatcher, Controller and View
    • Change Model naming to remove underscores and replace with capital letters
  • Implement Schema Support for PostgreSQL Databases
  • Easier database access when only returning one record
  • Better validation processing (all validate methods called regardless of status to return all validation errors)

1.3.1-beta

  • Complete, multiple database support
  • Helpers for calling database functions, passing arguments and returning results

1.3.2-beta

  • Module implementation
  • Controller and view helper implementation

1.3.3-beta

Beta maintenance release #3.

1.3.4-beta

Beta maintenance release #2.

1.3.5-stable

Stable release after completion of iterative beta testing.