New and Improved

If you’ve used POG in the past, you probably noticed that we’ve recently updated the look and feel of the website, to go along with the latest version of the code generator. (Version 3). We’ve been planning and working on this update for a long time, and we believe that this version is the best we’ve ever released since we started this project almost 2 years ago now. Our gratitude goes entirely to past and present users who’ve given us their invaluable feedback and suggestions. We’d like to mention that one user stood above the rest when it came to making so great suggestions and feature requests: Andy Law. Thanks to you and everyone else, we believe that POG further distances itself from any other PHP Code Generator in terms of ease of use, simplicity, performance and extensibility.

Before we proceed, if for some reason, you’d like to still use the previous version (maybe you’re in the middle of an ongoing project), it can still be accessed at:

http://museum.phpobjectgenerator.com/2.6

What’s New in 3.0
Pog fetches result set arrays where possible (big performance boost)
Data encoding is handled within database
Plugin interface
Data encoding is off by default
Data encoding sanity check added to setup
Delete deep and across for siblings
Getlist accepts column names as filters
Getlist, GetChildren and GetSibling return all results if fcv_array is null
Better session etiquette
Added database wrapper class for PDO as well. Improved PDO performance
POG_Base base class is now extended by all objects
Unit tested plugins, including PHP4
Made plugin API, POG Base API and Database API uniform to prevent plugin versioning

Database Wrapper improvement/refactoring
Database::NonQuery() performs a non-select query and returns affected rows
Database::Query() performs a select query and returns the affected rows
Database::Reader() performs a select query and returns dblink to result set
Database::FetchRow() perform fetchrow on Reader() results
Database::InsertOrUpdate() performs an insert or update statement, returns the id of the insert/update

What you can expect with the new version
If you’ve never used POG before, you should still find POG intuitive, easy to understand and use. If you’ve used any previous version, you will notice 2 or 3 things:

1. Performance is a non-issue even with very large record sets. (almost as fast as using direct SQL statements).
2. Data encoding has been turned off by default.
3. The code generated code is cleaner and much much more extensible (either by official or third party plugins)

Our blog and Discussion forum contains more information, discussion and threads related to the version 3 transition. Should you need even more information, help or guidance, please leave us a message on the discussion forum and we’ll gladly help.

Regards,
The POG Team.