Webface is an underlying technology that abstracts the control and visual aspects of a web page, away from the control logic.
It comprises of four components:
- Web_View
- Web_Auth
- Web_Ctrl
- Web_Dbug
Covering them individually...
- Web_View
This covers all the visual aspects.
- htmlStart & htmlEnd
- borders
- splitting into panes
Important points:
- Everything uses strings, not print
- Default implementation based around tables, not CSS
- Web_Auth
Determines whether a user is carry out a particular task. Since these
tasks are application-specific, most developers will create their
own implementation of this class' single method:
function isUserValidFor($purpose, $access = "w")
Web_Ctrl
This builds control code to pass parameters
between one invocation of the script, and the subsequent one.
The default uses the GET message.
- getParameterValue
- createAnchor
- createAnchorParam
A typical GET request might look like this:
http://www.warpdemo.homelinux.net/index.php?WRP001X1_current=0&
WRP003X3_current=1&MIN004A4_current=0&WRP004X5_sort=11&WRP004X5_mx=10&
WRP004X5_opt=&WRP005X6_sort=11&WRP005X6_mx=10&WRP005X6_opt=&
wintype=main&content=WRP003X&max=WRP003X
WARP, makes this easier.
Web_Dbug
Essential debug and tracing methods.
- Error, warning, and info levels
- Stores multiple errors
- Defaultly with output in HTML, but can be amended to trace to alert boxes, system logs files, etc, but overriding the methods.
Web_Face
Everything comes together in this single interface object. Essentially, it's:
function Web_Face()
{
$this->view = new Web_View;
$this->ctrl = new Web_Ctrl;
$this->auth = new Web_Auth;
$this->dbug = new Web_DBug;
}
If you simply pass a Web_Face reference around your code, and you can
do anything!
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