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Since there isn't a lot of documentation out there, some features of the Lithium PHP Framework are not well known by the public. Are there any cool code features which I would miss if I just use the framework as shown in the docs?

botero
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powtac
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  • These kinds of questions seem to stir up a lot of controversy http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3331399/hidden-features-of-go-closed – Mike B Jul 26 '10 at 16:40
  • I'm interested in Lithium, but I'm waiting for it to mature a bit first. – David Yell Jul 28 '10 at 16:37

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Hey, thanks for asking. Most of what you can do with Lithium currently is documented at http://li3.me/docs/lithium and http://dev.lithify.me/drafts/source. However, with each new release we usually write a blog post highlighting some of the features that have been added and what you can do with them. Those can be found here: http://dev.lithify.me/lithium/wiki/blog.

Let me know if you need anything else, or have any other questions. As always, feel free to drop by #li3 on Freenode.

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  • Nate, it's been awhile since the last release. How are things progressing? – Leo Sep 27 '10 at 15:18
  • See here for a quick summary: http://dev.lithify.me/lithium/wiki/workshops-meetups-conferences -- Next week I'll have a "State of Lithium" post up on DevZone, which will give a more thorough overview of our status. – Nate Abele Oct 13 '10 at 00:48
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Filters are a huge benefit in Lithium. Notice how one would do "beforeSave" and "afterSave":

http://www.patrickjsparrow.com/php/beforesave-and-aftersave-in-lithium/

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  • Oh yeah very nice: `Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'lithium\action\DispatchException' with message 'Controller 'Php' not found' in /home........` – Rudie Apr 28 '11 at 17:27
  • Sorry... I'm in the process of moving my coding blog to http://code.atavisticendeavor.com. There is a post similar to the one missing from my site at http://amalraghav.com/lithium-filters-a-practical-example/. It shows a good example of how to use filters in Lithium. – psparrow Jun 07 '11 at 03:17