Hi, I would like to use the full Symfony layer but the person doing the presenation/HTML doesn't want to use Symfony. So this is a compromise.
Following up on a remembered chapter in the Jobeet Tutorial, I'm going to do what you mentioned in having Symfony render JSON instead of HTML. Regards, Simon On Sep 28, 7:20 pm, Bruno Reis <bruno.p.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, but it is hard to understand what you need without asking... > > Why to use symfony only to manage API calls? Symfony strength, IMO, is the > controller / context / configuration layer. And there > is also the view layer. But there is no standard Facade or Service layer and > the DB is managed by doctrine or propel. Maybe you can use only one of them? > > Anyway I will say how I do. I use a JS template engine > (http://embeddedjs.com/getting_started.html) and most of the calls are done > using ajax / json. So my symfony pages return json and js renders the html. > Might be usefull or not. If you could explain your need a little better > (forces / constraints) I think you would get a better focused help. > > 2009/9/28 Simon Cast <simon.c...@gmail.com> > > > > > Hi, > > > I'm working on a project where we are going to not use the presenation/ > > view layer of symfony to render pages. All the actions, business > > logic and database access will be handled by Symfony but the > > presenation/page generation will be handled using straight HTML/JS > > (don't ask). Symfony in effect manages API calls. > > > Does any one have advice or tips on potential pitfalls? > > > One pitfall that I haven't resolved is how the HTML/JS pages and > > Symfony are going to site on the same server and play nice together. > > I could see problems with going towww.example.comand Symfony > > index.php taking over but that is probably resolved by changing the > > htmldocs directory. > > > On a similar note, does anyone know if there will be problems with > > calling actions straight without first going through the index.php? > > > Thanks for any pointers. > > > Regards, > > > Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
