Extended CodeIgniter Application Development Standards

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Extended CodeIgniter Application Development Standards

CI TaMeR

Posted: 15 May 2007 11:37 AM

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Hello

I would like to propose to disgust Extended CodeIgniter Application Development Standards
As soon as we agree on something we can then post the new standard on the wiki or even better create a test application template

Here are a few suggestions.

We don’t all use the same authentication method so I think we should come up with a uniform way of authenticating. My suggestion is that we use following:

$this->session->set_userdata(array('uid'=>1));
$this->uid = $this->session->userdata('uid'); 

where uid 1 is dedicated to the admin.
Any suggestions on this?
==========
We had some great contributions lately. One of my favorites is PQuery the PHP jQuery Ajax library. Great library and very good presentation of the test suite I think we can make contributions easier on the developer and the user.

I suggest we add following definitions to the bottom of each start page index.php most of the time.

define('BASEURL', 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/');
define('APPURL', BASEURL.str_replace ( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], '', APPPATH );
define('SITEURL', BASEURL.'index.php/'); 

Applications test suites could be formated like pquery did, a full application suite added like this.
/system/application/pquery/ then config, controller, etc below that
call the start page pquery.php in place of index.php
this way you can access that test application like this:
http://localhost/pquery.php/
Your prime application does not get effected at all and you don’t have to create a whole new instance of ci.

There is more but I am running out of time besides I like to see how your reaction is to my suggestions so far.

Thanks for taking the time ‘I’ll be back’

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CI TaMeR

Posted: 15 May 2007 11:49 AM

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I just had to add one more suggestion

We could standardize the way javascript, css files and other head data is included.

Here is my suggestion for a header.php file

<?php
    $this->timetamer->setTZ();
    $menu = $this->menu->mkmenu();
//    $msg = $this->msg->getMsg();
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title><?=$title?></title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="Description" content="<?=$title?>" />
<meta name="keywords" content="<?=$title?>" />
<meta name="rating" content="General" />
<meta name="author" content="Dennis T. Kaplan" />
<meta name="copyright" content="Dennis T. Kaplan" />
<meta name="generator" content="Codeigniter" />
<meta name="date" content="01/22/2007">
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css">
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">
<?php
$tplcss[]  = 'layout';
$tplcss[]  = 'base';
$tplcss[]  = 'menu';
foreach($tplcss as $v){
    echo '<link href="/public/css/'.$v.'.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"  media="screen" />'."\n";
}
unset($tplcss, $v);

if(isset($tpljs)){
    foreach($tpljs as $v){
        echo  </script type="text/javascript" src="/public/js/'.$v.'.js">'</script>'."\n";
    }
    unset($tpljs, $v);
    
}
if(isset($head)){
    echo $head;
    unset($head);
}
?>
</head>
<body> 

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danfreak

Posted: 15 May 2007 12:09 PM

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CI TaMeR - 15 May 2007 11:49 AM
I just had to add one more suggestion

We could standardize the way javascript, css files and other head data is included.

You might be interested in my layout helper functions.

I posted them yesterday in this thread.

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CI TaMeR

Posted: 15 May 2007 01:35 PM

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Looks good, I like it.

Could we use a naming convention for view files?
For example i use this:

$this->tpl['tpljs'][]  = 'title_to_slug';
$this->tpl['head'] = '';
$this->tpl['title'] = 'Admins Desk';
$this->tpl['body'] = ''; 

I use $this-> because not all of my view code comes from the same function. $this-> adds some flexibility.

Could also be


$this->view['title'] = 'Admins Desk';

So yes I think your helper would be a great addon to be included in the TestSuite Template.
I started creating a TestSuite so if you could post a complete functional drop in with your helper a header.php and a footer.php file I will included in the TestSuite.
As soon as I got a alfa version I will post it in a svn and I will give you access to post your updates until then a zip file would be fine.

Thank you

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thepyromaniac

Posted: 18 June 2007 06:18 AM

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CI TaMeR - 15 May 2007 11:37 AM

$this->session->set_userdata(array('uid'=>1)); $this->uid = $this->session->userdata('uid');
where uid 1 is dedicated to the admin.
Any suggestions on this?

One suggestion, DONT. User id 1 is always a bad idea in case you fall out with number 1 and delete him :p

Just use some sort of basic auth system, FAL intergration sounds fine to me, and we need some sort of extended output library that takes header/footer files with name and blocks. I began one like this which could easily be created into a portal script for and be used for uniform page creation with multiple output options.

[Source Code] Obviously needs some basic updates to make it more generic but you get the idea.

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