hypeFramework 1.9

Introduction

hypeFramework 1.9 is wrapper plugin that provides classes, views, actions and interfaces for other hypeJunction plugins. The previous 1.8 release has outgrown itself - it was getting too complicated to read or to understand. Large parts of the framework has been rewritten to make for a clean, readable and scalable interface.

What's New

Forms Interface

• Forms have been liberated from cubersome entity-based logic. All forms are now initialized and rendered dynamically
• Server-side form validation. Unvalidated forms are stored in the session global and served back to user
• Uniform HTML markup

List Interface

• New list rendering interface that builds on Elgg's getter functions and "automates" filtering and pagination

AJAX Interface

• Framework is no longer depedant on the JS infrastructure
• Thanks to the new xhr viewtype, all links fallback to default view should any JS errors occur
• Callback-driven logic

Location Interface

• New plugin hook handler that listens to changes in $entity->location metadata and attempts to geocode location values via Google Maps API
• Location interface makes use of Elgg's goecode cache thus reducing the number of API calls to Google Maps API

Improved File and Icon Handling

• A number of improvements have been made to handling of file uploads and entity icon generation

CSS/JS

• Most of the CSS has been stripped to allow for better compatibility with themes

Less generalization

• 1.9 steps away from generalizing and rather provides for a more granular Elgg-like approach