Hi all, I am developing an application which requires some quite powerful markup. I won't bother explaining with words until you've seen some markup:
======= [title]A title which will be pulled and put in to a field separate to the content in the database[/title] This [i]is[/i] [b]some[/b] text. Here is the first paragraph of the about page: [div="home"][page url="/about" limit="paragraph" start=1][/div] Here is 200 characters starting 100 characters in of the news page: [div="news"][page url="/news" limit=200 start=100][/div] [quote=23] Here I am quoting an item of content with id 23, the quote header will have a link to the content in question and will grab the username of the content creator. [/quote] Some more text. ======= Note: the above markup is just representative of what I might like to do, it is not exactly what I will do. What I want to know, is how I should split the logic for this. I have a parser which understands the markup, but should it be in a component (surely it needs to have open communication with the controller, for the controller to get the information it needs) or should it be split between a component and a helper So, Option 1, only a component: Tells the controller what data to get, parses the markup to HTML and hands it back to the controller to pass on to the view (which is non-the-wiser as to any pre-processing having occurred). Option 2: The component parses the markup and tells the controller to get and give to the view any data it will need from the model. Then the helper re-parses the markup and turns it in to a html representation based on the data given. Option n: Any other suggestions? I hope this makes sense, Adam. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
