Thomas

Modern development tools for WordPress (very rough & experimental.)

NOTHING WORKS YET

Features

Basic ORM - model your application's objects, query them and relate them together on any fields. (50% working)

Validation - half-working. You can specify validation methods in the models (is_string, is_email, is_ClassName) and the thing will spit at you if you pass in the wrong data

Example

For instance, if I were building a directory of surly greengrocers: --

/*
 * Define some models for our shops and shopkeepers --
 */
class Shop extends ThomasModel {

    /*
     * Add fields to objects (stored as post meta)
     */
    protected $fields = [
        'location',
        'price_range'
    ];

    /*
     * Validate your data before saving so you don't accidentally
     * destroy everything and lose your hard-earned reputation:
     */
    protected $validations = [
        'location' => 'is_string'
        'temperament' => [
            'is_integer',
            '$val <= 5', // basic conditional support
            '$val > 0'
        ]
    ];

}

class Shopkeeper extends ThomasModel {

    protected $fields = [
        'name',
        'temperament',
        'works_at'
    ];

    /*
     * Create arbitrary relationships between objects,
     * just specify the name of the class you created:
     */
    protected $relations = [
        'works_at' => 'Shop'
    ];

    protected $validations = [
        'name' => [
            'is_string',
            'exists'
        ],
        'temperament' => 'is_string'
    ];

}

$shop = new Shop();
$shop->location = 'High Street';

$greengrocer = new Shopkeeper();
$greengrocer->name = 'Simon';
$greengrocer->works_at = $grocer;
$greengrocer->temperament = 'Rude';

/*
 * You only need to save the highest-level object,
 * related objects are saved automatically:
 */
$greengrocer->save();

// You can also pass arrays into the constructor:
$greengrocer2 = new Shopkeeper( [
    'name' => 'Tim';
    'works_at' => new Shop( [
        'location' => 'South Street'
    ] ),
    'temperament' => 'polite'
] );

$greengrocer2->save();

/*
 * You can now query the greengrocers model by
 * chaining methods -- much nicer than faffing with
 * WP_Query:
 */
$collection = Shopkeeper::where( 'temperament', '==', 'polite' )->get();

/*
 * ThomasCollections are very basic right now. You can
 * get the first, last items and enumerate them --
 */
var_dump( $collection->first() );