08/5, @4:27pm: From 0.3 to 0.4, new Limonade features

You’ll find all changes in the CHANGES file, but let’s have a quick look to some new features:

Session features

Session starts automatically by defaut. Then you can access session variables like you use to do, with $_SESSION array.

You can disable sessions with the session option.

⌘ see snippet example

Flash features

Flash is a special use of sessions. A flash value will be available only on next request and will be deleted after. It’s very useful to raise errors on a form or to notice a successful action.

This is the same behaviour as in Rails, and the syntax is very closed to it:

• flash($name, $value...) defines a flash for the next request
• in views, you can get current flash values with the $flash array or flash_now($name) function.

⌘ see snippet example

Url rewriting support

Limonade now support url rewriting for beautiful urls.

With a .htaccess in your app folder

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  Options +FollowSymlinks
  Options +Indexes
  RewriteEngine on
  # RewriteBase /my_app/ # if your app is in a subfolder

  # test string is a valid files
  RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
  # test string is a valid directory
  RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d

  RewriteRule ^(.*)$   index.php?/$1    [NC,L]
</IfModule>

And setting explicitly the option('base_uri') in your configure() function:

option('base_uri', '/my_app'); # '/' or same as the RewriteBase in your .htaccess

You can access your site with urls like http://your.new-website.com/my/limonade/path instead of http://your.new-website.com/?/my/limonade/path.

Errors redesign

Enjoy your errors! (screenshot)