m4platform and m4mc

I am currently working on a so-called application platform, namely m4platform, on which I will be building from now on my applications. It is build with Zend Framework MVC. It comes with 3 indispensable modules: m4modules for managing modules of the application, m4users and m4auth. I believe it’s pretty intuitive what the last two modules do.

As you can see it is a platform for building modular applications which need authentication against a users table. Besides authentication, the platform also comes equipped with an Access Control Plugin. This plugin pretty much controls everything and handles the requests properly. The access control is done via an ACL (Access Control List). This ACL is updated every time a module is installed/uninstalled or enabled/disabled. It is also updated every time a change is done on user groups. The ACL is stored in a file as a serialized object.

There are so many things to say about this platform but I’d like to be short this time. What you need to know for now is that m4platform will be the best free solution for building Zend Framework applications. The aims of this platform are many. Once I have a full list of what you can do and what you can’t do with this platform I will post it here. Stay tuned to find out more about m4platform!

The m4mc is a collection of modules (m4niac modules collection) which are to be plugged into m4niac applications (applications built on m4platform). There two types of modules: m4admin modules and m4public modules. The m4admin modules all need authentication, while only some m4public modules need it in order to access them. Once released the m4platform, a clear categorization of these modules will be available too. I’m planning to build modules for almost everything.

LE: m4platform together with m4mc and m4library will be used on various applications I will build, namely a CMS, a BLOG application and maybe an E-COMMERCE application too. All these will be free.

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