[Solar-talk] Example Solar Code

[Andreas Ravnestad]

Michael Soule wrote:
> I'm getting a little lost in all the abstractions here. I was 
> concerned at first that Solar might not be flexible enough to do what 
> I need but instead I'm finding it's so flexible that I'm having 
> trouble determining the structure of my App. When you guys build a 
> site, do you create both a model and a page controller for each 
> individual page or do you make one class handle multiple pages by just 
> creating several different actions? If I have pages such as Home, 
> Categories, Portfolios, Search Results, Login, and Registration... 
> should I have a separate page controller for each of those?
>
> --
> mike
Hi!

Yes you should have separate page controller for those :) But that's not 
a rule, just a guideline. We all know web development is seldom as 
simple as we envision when we start out on an application :)

I usually write my controllers in singular (not plural), most often one 
controller corresponding to some model:
  Home (or Default)
  Category
  Portfolio
  SearchResult
  Login
  Register

For each of these I create the controller file + the related 
directories. For example, for some application called "Account" with two 
controllers (Profile and User), I create the following:

Account/App/Profile.php
Account/App/Profile/Helper
Account/App/Profile/Layout
Account/App/Profile/Locale
Account/App/Profile/View

Account/App/User.php
Account/App/User/Helper
Account/App/User/Layout
Account/App/User/Locale
Account/App/User/View

And also:
Account/App/Helper
Account/App/Layout
Account/App/Locale
Account/App/View

I may have forgotten something, but this is the most important to me :) 
In addition to this I usually create default actions for my controllers, 
almost exclusively naming them "index". I try to create my controllers 
and actions so they will yield urls looking like this:
    http://account.something.com/profile/index
    http://account.something.com/profile/details/10  (view the details 
on account with id 10)
    http://account.something.com/user/login
    http://account.something.com/user/register

And so on. I hope this was of some help. I'm sure the other app 
developers here have their own styles as well :)

-AR