I have been debating on the easiest/cleanest way to display records (e.g. forum, news, blog, etc)
My plans are to make a framework which you can use very easily and rely on it to do things like:
- Striping unsafe characters (e.g. escape db queries, escape html chars)
Validation (e.g. email, url, integer, floating point)
Generate output using Ajax + XHTML, XML, plain HTML (old browsers), and WAP/WML
Database storage, retrival, manipulation
My Plan is to design this using a top-down approach. (Design the implementation, then design the backend)
So what I'm asking everyone here, who has ideas for the good designs for doing this.
I'll post what I coded last night when I get home from work in about an hour.