Define server side application

[ThePeach]

As it is right now there's no server side application.
As long as an API is needed for the client side application to work something along the lines of a server-side application could really help.

Starting ideas:

• have Yii as underlying framework
• use as less resources as possible
• do not use mysql (at least for the beginning), start with xml would be nice, making the transition less problematic and being able to deal with multidimensional data structures without getting mad with references and such things.

What has to be done (tickets needs to be opened for it)

• sketch out a protocol/API to be exposed the client side should be able to work with (bandwidth should be kept in mind) (see draft data sources schema #7 and define client-server protocol and API #8)
• given the previous point, have Yii work with xml datastructures instead of databases and have models work without too much hassle.
• if the first point is not feasible, then consider other opportunities as Yii should work with berkdb or whatever is called now
• the API could provide a multi protocol output (json/rdf/etc)

[ThePeach]

added link to #7 and #8

[ThePeach]

rawtaz from #yii@freenode suggested the use of this plugin for Yii,
having a play around it would be nice, without having to wait too much on schemas and stuff like that.
http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/cxmlmodel

[ThePeach]

An interesting idea is to create the "gallery" as a Yii extension, this would help extending it and reusing across the community, see http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/extension.create