On Monday 10 May 2010 13:04:36 richard gray wrote:
> On 10/05/2010 18:17, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> > It makes sense sometimes to have different files for different sections
> > of a website. For example, blog.php, gallery.php, cart.php could deal
> > with the blog, gallery and shopping cart sections for an artists
> > website. Yes, it could all be achieved with one script handling
> > everything, but sometimes when the areas of the site differ greatly, it
> > results in a lot of extra code to deal with pulling in the right
> > template and content parts. I've always favoured only including the code
> > a page needs rather than a huge amount of stuff that it doesn't.
>
> this isn't necessarily true - the architecture I've developed uses a
> single dispatch script (works fine with the mod rewrite option 2
> scenario as well) - this script does general checks/security/filters etc
> then simply determines what page/function the user wants from the
> request ($_GET/$_POST parameter) and passes control to the specific
> handler via including the relevant controller module. The controller
> module is responsible for which template is required and loads up
> specific classes needed to process the request etc so each module just
> loads its own stuff and nothing else so there's no overhead.
>
> This method also has a small extra benefit that the web server document
> root just has a very simple 2 liner script instead a myriad of php
> scripts... if the webserver is misconfigured then someone who sees the
> source code doesn't get to see much..

This thread makes me wonder if using Smarty is smart. Does anyone here use a 
templeting system such as smarty or am I the only one?

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Blessings,
David M.

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