On 2005-12-17, Michael Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brad Cathey wrote: >> I'm writing a medium-sized web-based financial application that will have up >> to 50 run modes between presenting empty forms, saving, editing, updating, >> and deleting from them. Run modes *could* be broken down into groups, e.g., >> these 4 deal with managing users, these 6 deal with managing project >> specifications, etc. > > > 50 is definitely too much. There isn't a hard rule to follow for what is too > much, but I think there can never be too few. I usually split them up by > functionality or user authentication level. And remember that base classes are > your friend here. For instance, if I have admin and normal users and each can > view reports. Some reports are the same, but some are different, I would split > them up into the following structure: > > MyApp::Base - base class for all my app classes that might have classes > to deal with configuration, database, sessions, > templates, etc that they all have in common. > MyApp::Report - base class for reports that contains those > reports that > everyone can see as well as common methods used to > generate reports, graphs, etc > MyApp::Report::Admin - app class containing admin reports > MyApp::Report::User - normal user reports > > Most of it is personal perference, but you really need to break it into > structures.
This is a FAQ that there should be a page about on the wiki if there is not already. Michael's answer is a great start. Anyone want to work on this? http://www.cgi-app.org/ Mark -- http://mark.stosberg.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
