Roadmap

This is the set of features that the Lithium team is focusing on in the near-term. If your must-have feature or favorite new technology doesn't appear here, don't fret: Lithium is very flexible and has a robust plugin API. Extending the core framework is trivial, and it's possible that someone has already developed a project that meets your needs.

Session/Cookie Handling

• A strategy to encrypt cookie data

Model

• Support for automatically and manually mapping SQL query results
• Finishing support for relationships
• Schema caching

Test Suite

• Implement JSON display formats for test data
• Switch to Xdebug's ignored lines filter

Error Handling System

• Aggregate multiple filters applied to the same method
• Integrate handlers with filtering system
• Integration tests
• Class documentation

Security

• CSRF support
• Integration tests for the HTTP adapter

Post-1.0

Console

• Support for libedit / readline

Globalization

More information about Globalization in Lithium can be found in the specification.

• Support for retrieving plural functions via Catalog for Cldr and Gettext adapters.
• Uniform plural functions (in Cldr, Gettext and Memory adapters).
• Support for direction.
• Caching in Catalog (replacing caching in Message)?
• Inflector integration

Note: Inflector already supports a decent set of conversions. Making some of those conversion g11n resources and adding them on a per locale basis — if needed — to the Inflector would be nice to have but isn't required.

Plugin-based support

• Support for number and date formatting
  • Date and Number Helpers using ext/intl?
  • Date and Number Formatting at model level?

Static Code Analysis

• The lithium\analysis\Parser class has only very rudimentary support for recognizing code patterns. Possibility: implement an object-oriented abstract syntax tree.

Logging

• Adapter support for FirePHP

Model

• Collection constraints

Routing

• Built-in entity/resource routing

Cache

• Namespaced cache keys
• CAS
• Multi-key support for read/write/delete operations

Session

• Multi-key support for read/write/delete operations

Default pages

• Check connections of any configured database/cache/other external resource adapters
• Check system support for various database / cache adapters