Smarty

[bimal]

I am now thinking Smarty as a tool to build a small framework system. Here is how I am planing my new developments:

Smarty holds a basic handling of templates and its resurces (plugins: functions, modifiers, etc...). But I am thinking to hold make take out ALL application logic into a separate directory called models. All the templates are now the views of MVC pattern. This is a work in progress and I will try to publish my work online, once I complete it.

One main logic goes with .htaccess which identifies each of the requests. It breaks each page requests into models part and views parts. For example, if /user/login.php is accessed, it should break into user and login.

Now, the framework starts searching for user class and its login method. If they exist, it tries to execute them. Plus, it searches for some other models, (in this case: includes files in models/user/login.php).

Finally, it determines to display the template file (smarty_templates/user/login.php).

The user and login behave as independent class/method and model/view pairs. Further, php5 feature allows to call ANY class name though __autoload() function, and the complete set is a perfect gem for Smarty.

The major benift now onwards is that, I am now, free to write any page call, and its template, even though a physical (real) file does not exist where a hacker may guess. Ultimately, breaking the user reuqests, searching for class, function, models and Smarty template are big and main issues.

I will be sharing more of my experience once I complete it. Thanks for all!
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[mohrt]

I have a simple MVC at tinymvc.com. You can adapt Smarty as the view pretty easily.

[bimal]

There are a lot of expert and matured MVCs. I have also downloaded your mvc and looing into it. It looks really tiny, and just useful upto the features I want.

I do not prefer other MVCs for now, and so, will try to add your work/logic. When I started, I did not mean to write an MVC, but I was a bit tired of adding a lot of configurations in each files, and I search some way out. In fact, I am just writing a very small class file to split up the user requests (urls) and send that to Smarty for views, after some works with the models. But, Smarty is one of the core thing for me. So, the total size seems bigger. This is a work in progress.

TinyMVC looks to become a total collection of 51kb of files - thats impressive, and readable in a shorter period of time. Thanks for your work. And, I liked the page's layout (clean, bluish).
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