Re: [nyphp-talk] form and database solutions, particularly with large records without a common schema

2012-11-09 Thread Federico Ulfo
Hi Greg, I did a few in MySql and the challenge is to manage the validation and the field dependencies, for example the State depends on Country, the group Shipping Address depend by the flag "Same as billing address", so most of your work will be on the frontend with jQuery. I think your best way

Re: [nyphp-talk] Member Management System

2012-11-09 Thread Federico Ulfo
Howdy Matt -- for your project Wordpress is the best solution, because easy to hack and fast to develop. Is probably not the most elegant code out there, but is the best to have the job done! Also in WP other developers can join the project later, and immediately understand it and hack it. Avoid c

Re: [nyphp-talk] form and database solutions, particularly with large records without a common schema

2012-11-09 Thread Rob Marscher
MongoDB works great for storing documents like this altogether in one collection with varying schemas. It makes it easy to query across all documents. But you could also accomplish something similar with an RDBMS with a table for each type and a search tool like ElasticSearch to index it all in

Re: [nyphp-talk] BDD: Behat, Codeception...

2012-11-09 Thread Rob Marscher
I haven't checked out Codeception too much and I haven't fully incorporated any BDD in php. But I am very interested in BDD in general. I think the Gherkin DSL is nice because it lets project managers or other people that might be helping to write specs get involved in the tests without needing t

[nyphp-talk] form and database solutions, particularly with large records without a common schema

2012-11-09 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I've got to *quickly* create an application that will have a large form front-end. The form doesn't have to be multi-page, meaning it could be a monololithic page, but the page does have to be dynamic in the sense that entire sections will depend on options within the form. Plus, some options wil

[nyphp-talk] Amazon MWS

2012-11-09 Thread Nicholas Hart
Hi, I am working on converting our Amazon API from SOAP which was working until last week to MWS. Has anybody done this successfully? I have my account setup and downloaded their PHP code samples but am having trouble and could use some assistance. Also just found their Scratchpad site which is

[nyphp-talk] Member Management System

2012-11-09 Thread Matt Juszczak
I've been doing some volunteer work for a local non-profit and they have been looking into re-doing their member management system. I decided not to build something custom because their needs are simple. Originally, I thought about going with something like SugarCRM and using that to store the

[nyphp-talk] BDD: Behat, Codeception...

2012-11-09 Thread Yitzchak Schaffer
So, BDD: I see there's Behat and Cucumber for PHP, which are similar inasmuch as they use a DSL. There's also Codeception. http://behat.org/ http://lucato.it/php-bdd-cucumber-cuke4php http://codeception.com/ I personally have a guttural aversion to the magic DSL style of testing, so Codeceptio