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by rabatitat
Wed Oct 29, 2008 5:44 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: include(); Navigation
Replies: 20
Views: 6429

Re: include(); Navigation

Just about every book in the Addison Wesley Signature Series, be sure to check out "Patterns of enterprise application architecture", "design patterns: elements in reusable object oriented software" , also "test driven development" by Kent Beck Thanks a lot. You've bee...
by rabatitat
Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:01 pm
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: include(); Navigation
Replies: 20
Views: 6429

Re: include(); Navigation

What I don't get is with all the books out there on PHP, they hardly mention structuring. If you follow the examples they put forth in their books you'll end up with what I had at the start of this thread... A mish-mash of 2 or more different types of code... The books on structuring, called design...
by rabatitat
Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:32 pm
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: include(); Navigation
Replies: 20
Views: 6429

Re: include(); Navigation

Thanks for all the replies! :D I'm still taking all your suggestions in and am currently trying to make it all fit in. The MVC paradigm doest make the code more manageable. All I did was rename database tables move code from the monolithic index.php to places and files where they relate to in order ...
by rabatitat
Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:37 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: include(); Navigation
Replies: 20
Views: 6429

Re: include(); Navigation

No I haven't really found something I could apply to my problem since the server this thing is gonna live on won't allow me to use .htaccess files... I'd really appreciate links to/or examples re: this. If I get some time I will convert your example above to Action Controllers to give you an exampl...
by rabatitat
Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:13 pm
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: include(); Navigation
Replies: 20
Views: 6429

Re: include(); Navigation

omniuni wrote:You could also try an elseif, it may at least clean it up a bit. I hate validation.
I don't think so... It's still the same thing and actually longer.
by rabatitat
Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:09 pm
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: include(); Navigation
Replies: 20
Views: 6429

Re: include(); Navigation

Did you find what you want? Do you want examples of converting the code above to a Front/Action Controller design? No I haven't really found something I could apply to my problem since the server this thing is gonna live on won't allow me to use .htaccess files... I'd really appreciate links to/or ...
by rabatitat
Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:44 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: include(); Navigation
Replies: 20
Views: 6429

Re: include(); Navigation

Seems I won't be getting any sleep after all... Just Googled Front Controller and I might be in for another long read...

Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction. :D
by rabatitat
Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:31 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: include(); Navigation
Replies: 20
Views: 6429

Re: include(); Navigation

Thanks for that. I'll look into it after I get some sleep...
by rabatitat
Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:50 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: include(); Navigation
Replies: 20
Views: 6429

Re: include(); Navigation

It's just one big GoTo *cringe* system now... :banghead: The code works fine but it's a bitch to maintain, not to mention the problems that would crop up with CSS... It's gone up to 800 lines now and I'm not even halfway through the forms yet. 8O I've decided not to use javascript for anything more...
by rabatitat
Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:38 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: include(); Navigation
Replies: 20
Views: 6429

Re: include(); Navigation

In my experience I think it's just one of the lengthy parts of validation. Obviously it's very useful to make use of functions where you can. You can get the forms method from the server using $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] but this doesn't indicate the form element i.e. $_POST['cmdAddNewUser']. My adv...
by rabatitat
Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:54 am
Forum: PHP - Theory and Design
Topic: include(); Navigation
Replies: 20
Views: 6429

include(); Navigation

I'm not really well-versed in PHP since my coding background isn't web based. I have this new project that has to be platform-independent hence the shift to web application development. Now the I want the feel of the site to be more like your usual binary app... The problem is with PHP/HTML being mo...