So it’s been a couple of months since I posted last. I’ve really been heads down on coding at both work and home. Things are starting to lighten up in both areas and I’m ready to start a new project, PHPDbMigrate.

At work I’ve been setting up a lot of sites using CodeIgniter. It’s not a bad framework and since I’ve been away from PHP for a while it’s nice to be coding in PHP again. Not much really exciting going on at work, just setting up websites and modifications to existing code.

At home though is entirely different. For thre months now I’ve been developing Value Target. Launched it June 7. It’s definately a labor of love and still have lot’s to do on it. It’s a rails app and I’ve really fallen in love with the framework. So much so that I am going to port PyMigrate to PHP.

PHPDbMigrate is the name of the port. Yes there are “some” attempts out there to create an ActiveMigration library. I find that they are limited to MySql, not complete, or do not run code blocks. Since I’ve already accomplished that in Python, it’ll be easy for me to port to PHP. Although I won’t have the luxury of db connector library like I did with SQLAlchemy in Python.

I’ve set up the Google code project and will announce all my updates to the repository.

After I finally release a stable version of PHPDbMigrate my plan is to create a CodeIgniter library so I can develop sites even faster. So thanks for checking in and stay tunes.

Tags: php, PHPDbMigrate, Value Target