Eventum and its model for a Blueprint PHP Application

Harry, thanks for the praise for Eventum. This is mainly the result of my work and Bryan Alsdorf at MySQL, even though I’m no longer with MySQL AB anymore. We do agree with you on the aspects of making the page controllers as simple as possible, and also trying to let the code be as simple as possible, but still easy to maintain and change.

For some of its technical weaknesses such as the use of HTTP_GET_VARS and etc, there is a reason for this. Eventum was initially supposed to be a commercial product, and I wanted to sell commercial licenses of this application, to be then installed at the customer’s server. I tried to make the installation process as easy as possible (and it still is one of the easiest web applications to install around), and that meant working with whatever PHP configuration was available on that server. That forced me to make concessions on a few features, and that is one of them.

Anyway, thanks for the pointer, even though I’m not really involved with Eventum too much myself. I’m sure Bryan will like hearing about this.

3 Comments »

  1. Harry Fuecks said,

    January 30, 2006 @ 4:25 am

    Thanks for the info. Do you mind if I embarrass you further by going into detail as to why I think Eventum is a good application to immitate, some time?

  2. jpm said,

    January 30, 2006 @ 11:10 am

    Sure, embarrass away. Feel free to point out the weaknesses by the way, I would appreciate the feedback.

    –Joao

  3. Basker Janakiram said,

    April 29, 2010 @ 9:53 am

    Hi,
    I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question about eventum. I need some help on Eventum Performance. Our users are feel that the eventum queries (especially viewCR, list and string search) are taking longer to respond. Whats the best approach to narrow down the problem and fix it. I read about APP_BENCHMARK. Will it be usefull to narrowdown the problem.

    Also, Is there a paid service available to resolve the configuration and performance issues?

    Regards,
    Basker

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