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Separation of data, its presentation and functionality

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 8:32 am
by NastyGirl
Hi
I am a journalist, now making a research on content management. Made a research on some cms (open source) and read cmswatch, bla-bla-bla. I feel cms must separate data presentation from data itself and it must change both separately. What about website functionality (newslines, navigation...)? The question is: are there any ways to tune functionality like templates which determine onsite data presentation?

Has anyone come across this issue before or can help out, please? :roll:

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 9:01 am
by McGruff
Some of the best php programmers I know are working on WACT. The ModelViewController link has a detailed description of how MVC can be used to deal with some of the issues you have raised. As it happens, Jeff Moore, one of the WACT developers, has a blog here and has just made an entry about MVC. If you follow the links you'll find some other opinions about the usefulness of the pattern.

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 9:07 am
by kettle_drum
The papers in the link below are a great resource, check them out, ive read a few there before that cover what you need:

http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/index.php

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:39 am
by NastyGirl
Thanks to all! links are very useful :)) By the way, i also found a good resource on that -- http://www.xmlsapiens.org and http://www.sapid.sf.net. It reports xml specification and programming core of open source cms. What do you think of it?