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Mimesis

Mimesis is a flat file database package. As of right now it's "functional" but it still needs some tweaks. In case anybody's been wondering this is what basically all the stuff I've been working on has been leading up to. Too many people frequent my GrimBB site looking for a flat file database, so I decided to separate GrimBB's integrated database (i.e. grimBase) and create Mimesis. Eventually I'll modify GrimBB to make use of Mimesis as its database backend (Mimesis is based on what I've learned from GrimBB and a couple of new tricks).

The website is incomplete. The links above the news aren't complete and don't go anywhere. The source code is available for download AS IS though.

Of course you need Pando to download it. On another thread someone mentioned that it sucks to download Pando to download my code. I concur. However, I explained on GrimBB's main site why I made the change and I find Pando very useful so I like giving people some incentive to download it and try it (I'm sure torrent files originally had nay sayers as well).

Back to Mimesis, the best part I'd say... the squid logo, it's sweeeeeet :D

Awesome. Let's see some sample scripts! :)

Took me awhile Sane but I managed to do what you asked for. I've just released v1.1 and the site now has an example (albeit a very oversimplified and not too complex one) for an ad rotator.

This borders on *not* being open source. You have to download a closed source application to get at the source code and its one which only works on Windows and Mac.

My advice: Create a source forge account and upload your source there. No need to worry about all the bandwidth that 64k file is going to take up, or stupid web hosts. You could even put your source repository up there as well.

I don't really like sourceforge, as I've already tried to use it before. Besides, once one person downloads it they can redistribute it. i.e. open source. So feel free to do so.

Put out v1.2 it fixed an error with the Mutex class that always returned false on the releaseLock() method. It also incorporates the file-locking into Mimesis so that it's no longer necessary to use the Mutex class separately to obtain file locks. Finally, it also allows for redefining the table row so that the lock does not undo itself. phpDocs and tutorial were updated to reflect these changes as well.

I've included a tutorial which explains how to add images into a mimesis constructed database, and to use the database as a way to obscure the URL so as to prevent hotlinking. These procedures can be used for any file.

Released Mimesis v1.5 today. As you can see on the site lots of changes.