Re: [SMARTY] Seperation of Logic and Presentation

On Fr, 2005-07-29 at 13:49 -0400, Evan Wagner wrote:
> I've been using Smarty for a couple years now. Recently I've
> questioned my method of separating Logic and Presentation and have
> come up with two ways to solve it.
> 
> [...]
> 
> What do you guys think?

Originally coming from desktop application programming I only recently
started developing web applications, so just had to figure that out for
myself. I played around with Smarty and tried a view different models,
now this works quite fine:

1. Database abstraction in PHP (using AdoDB in my particular case).
> http://cvs.gna.org/viewcvs/tefinch/tefinch/src/services/forumdb.class.php?rev=1.6&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

2. Abstract every Smarty template through a class that does all of the
logic.
http://cvs.gna.org/viewcvs/tefinch/tefinch/src/actions/

3. Keep the templates dumb. They are basically only doing the formating.
http://cvs.gna.org/viewcvs/tefinch/tefinch/src/themes/heise2/

4. A controller.
> http://cvs.gna.org/viewcvs/tefinch/tefinch/src/forum.inc.php?rev=1.44&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

I did not want to drag the SQL into the templates as this might expose
too much of the implementation already, thus blurring the separation.

I am fairly happy with the result so far.

-Samuel

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