Wordpress OO plugin framework

I’m working on a OO framework that will make it super easy for writing Wordpress plugins. The framework will also give you much cleaner and manageable code.

Here you see a little example of a plugin written with the framework. The activate and deactivate are not needed but it’s just for demonstrating how easy it is.

<?php /*
Plugin Name: Custom plugin
Plugin URI: http://www.sitebase.be
Description: Description
Author: Sitebase
Version: 1.0
Requires at least: 2.8
Author URI: http://www.sitebase.be
*/
include "library/My_WPBase.php";

class CustomPlugin extends My_WpBase{

        const NAME = "My Custom Plugin";

        public function activate(){
                echo 'activate';
        }

        public function deactivate(){
                echo 'deactivate';
        }

        public function filter_the_title($title){
                return $title . ' Modified :)';
        }

}

$CustomPlugin = new CustomPlugin();
?>

Instead of writing all kinds of add_action or add_filter rules you just overwrite the action/filter methods you want to use and you’re ready to go.

This in combination with a lot of other usefull stuff will make this a very powerfull, and the first real OO Wordpress plugin framework.

Check out this little video to see the plugin in action: http://screenr.com/liL

Do you guys have some good ideas of what you want to see in such a framework?

I’ve also posted this on Forrst.

Looks like a great idea! Not sure I have any immediate ideas off the top of my head, but I can imagine this sort of thing being hugely useful when writing plugins.

Great work.

Thanks man. Will be releasing shortly my first item that uses this framework. After that I hope to release the framework here too.

Awesome

Just to let you know that the framework can now be downloaded from my Github page.