Separate application logic from layout

[soren121]

From [email protected] on August 02, 2012 11:07:28

Right now the dashboard is embedded into the PHP files with application logic intermingled, which is quite frowned upon as the application logic should be separated from the layout.

Either we should switch over to a templating system similar to Smarty or just make separate PHP files which handle displaying of the page with no logic in it.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/lightblog/issues/detail?id=52

[soren121]

From [email protected] on August 13, 2012 13:06:04

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Labels: Maintainability Component-Core

[soren121]

From [email protected] on August 18, 2012 15:54:05

Just a simple suggestion; keep lightblog light! Use savant3: http://phpsavant.com/

[soren121]

From [email protected] on August 18, 2012 16:22:53

Apparently Savant was last updated in 2009, and a project called Savvy was started as a replacement: https://github.com/saltybeagle/Savvy The last commits were a year ago.

[soren121]

From doodle62 on August 18, 2012 17:02:51

I neglected to discuss this in the issue comments, but we won't be using a templating system, especially not for the admin panel. We're doing our best to separate logic from layout, and most of the bigger infractions (like the dashboard that Ian mentioned) have been dealt with already. It really doesn't make sense to use a templating system in the admin panel because it isn't designed to be themeable, and it would severely limit our ability to implement certain features. We will (in the future) offer the ability to use different stylesheets to change its look that way. At the most, we'll split it with a Model-View-Controller (MVC) kind of thing.