Getting started with the Nooku framework

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Permalink Reply by Amy Stephen on October 6, 2009 at 8:37am

I've requested access a couple of times, but have not heard back, yet. I'd also like to see the documentation.

Permalink Reply by Peter van Westen (NoNumber) on October 6, 2009 at 8:49am

It's a bit confusing that there is still a "Request access" button and form on the site. Just fund out they have published the link to the code on their site under 'Buzz':
http://www.nooku.org/en/buzz/106-sourceforge.html

So you can just access the code via:
svn co https://nooku-framework.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nooku-framework nooku-framework

I also found out how to install it. Just run this folder through the installer (there is no zip, so use the folder option):
\nooku-framework\releases\0.6\code

But I can't find any documentation on this or how to move forward. There is an example component. But I don't have the time and energy to figure it all out myself...

Permalink Reply by Stian Didriksen on October 6, 2009 at 10:21am

http://api.nooku.org/trunk/

Permalink Reply by Stian Didriksen on October 6, 2009 at 10:22am

I recommend using 0.7 over 0.6, 0.6 is way out of date ;)

Permalink Reply by Torkil Johnsen on October 6, 2009 at 10:25am

Hm. The harbour 1, 2 and 3 tutorials, included in the download, are nice tutorials to start out with in my opinion.

Permalink Reply by Peter van Westen (NoNumber) on October 7, 2009 at 2:28am

The harbour 1, 2 and 3 are not tutorials. They are examples.

Permalink Reply by Royce Harding on October 7, 2009 at 1:17pm

There is the B.E.E.R tutorial that won a J! competition for RAD. http://www.nooku.org/en/buzz/105-joomla-dev-showdown.html

I downloaded and installed it, and am going through it now. This stuff is still Alpha, so its understandable that there is no tutorial. Join the forum and ask questions, the folks there are very helpful.

Permalink Reply by Rastin Mehr on October 7, 2009 at 2:39pm

There are no documentation becuase Nooku Framework is a perpetually changing source code and it would be too early for them to start putting together documentation for a constantly changing API.

But there is a solid design philosophy there and the API is actually quite simple. It also really reduces the lines of code that you will be writing. Some of you perhaps have seen this example:

http://code.google.com/p/bibliotekoo/wiki/helloworld

We have been the first major project other than Nooku CMS to use the Nooku Framework for the Anahita project. We are currently using the version 0.6 and soon we will be migrating to the version 0.7

I am not a big nooku expert but I'd be happy to share what I know to answer some questions.

Permalink Reply by Peter van Westen (NoNumber) on October 7, 2009 at 2:53pm

I am not sure I have the time to dig into something that is still so Alpha.

One uestion I can't figure out myself:
If you develop an extension on the Nooku framework, how will it work on someone elses setup - that doesn't use Nooku?
As far as I can figure out, it won't. Which means you can't make any extensions for public use when you use the Nooku framework...?!

Permalink Reply by Royce Harding on October 7, 2009 at 3:23pm

I can see that being an issue for general purpose type extensions. Nooko requires PHP5.2 and MySQLi. (with v5.0.45) Hopefully most folks have migrated to PHP 5.2 by now, but most probably haven't switched their systems to MySQLi.

I can see using/learning it for my own and clients sites.

Permalink Reply by Shayne Bartlett on October 9, 2009 at 10:53pm

"I am not sure I have the time to dig into something that is still so Alpha."
B.E.E.R. is Alpha. Nooku 6.4 is stable with 7.0 in development.

"but most probably haven't switched their systems to MySQLi."
If your running php5.2 and your running Joomla! 1.5 you have mySQLi. Just go to Global Configuration and change Database Type to "mysqli" thats it, done. I've yet to find any extension that takes issue with mySQLi and I doubt I will.

Permalink Reply by Rastin Mehr on October 10, 2009 at 12:31am

Nooku comes as a joomla system plugin. You can easily check and install it while installing your extension. It is not a big deal.

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