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Posted by Anthony Smith on 01/24/07 15:33
It is time for PHP to come up with something like Java's Hibernate &
Spring. They was a PHP implementation of Java's Struts, but it has not
been modified in a year or so. I think we all may need to join in the
party to help out.
On Jan 24, 8:12 am, "pittendrigh" <Sandy.Pittendr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Someone wrote:
> > The database and the code are not only interrelated, they are
> > married, or perhaps they are blood brothers, they can never be separated.
> > The code has to know about the structure of the tables.This is true in the general relational tables case, but not in all
> cases.
> Html is inherently hierarchical. It can be modelled and stored in
> hierarchical structures, where each
> node in the hierarchy represents a widget or div or paragraph in the
> page,
> and each such node can be adorned with a node_type attribute that
> permanently ties it to a particular display behavior.
>
> If you work with two *semi-mirror-image* hierarchies: one for defining
> page layouts
> and one for defining the data that gets pasted into its matching layout
> hierarchy,
> then it's possible to make a semi-automated system that works from a
> point
> and click editor, rather than the keyboard of a programmer.
>
> Each page-type display hierarchy may have many data sets that can be
> pasted
> in, to make an arbitrary number of page instantiations for that layout.
>
> To make each page the code loops through both hierarchies, pasting data
> into
> nodes in the layout, and then renders each node by default behavior.
>
> When a system works that way you do not have to change anything about
> the display code when the data changes. All you need is a point and
> click
> editor that creates hierarchical display definitions and the mirror
> image
> data sets to paste into the displays. Once you have the editor, you
> never need the programmer again.
>
> In other words you have a form that creates a form that defines a
> layout
> as a hierarchy. The rest can happen--forever--as drag and drop and
> click.
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