I've been using the CodeIgniter framework, however after learning Java and awesome features like Interfaces, Abstract classes, packages, and that PHP 5 also supports most of these features, I'm ready to graduate and build a real OO framework in PHP which uses all of these features (including namespaces), so I can build much more elegant designs.
What I'm thinking of is that rather than everything in the system sharing a single $this-> object like its done in CodeIgniter, e.g:
$this->load->model('box');
$this->box->something();
You would do the following to load the Box model and to call its something() method.
$box = new Framework\Models\Box();
$box->something();
Or the following
abstract class BaseController
{
public function getModel($name)
{
$model = new Framework\Models\$model(); //Is this valid code?
return $model;
}
}
class MyController extends BaseController
{
public function index()
{
$box = $this->getModel('box');
$box->something();
}
}
Are there any suggestions/pointers for building this, such as which minimum system classes I would need for the framework, what namespaces I should have, or any other features?