[Fofredux-devel] MVC

[Evan R. <eva...@gm...>]

hey,

kev, i see that you've started to put in the...um...framework for a framewo=
rk.

after chopping apart the options page today, i became a little
disheartened.  currently our controller is a big fat blob and the view
is a mess.

in order to get any kind of css to play nicely, we really need to
strip out a nice view and keep it super simple:
for example, the feeds list, should be 1 view, which is then invoked
from the panel or frameset or whatever.  right now, this same list is
coded almost identically in feeds.php (framed) and panel.php (normal).

i'm really getting the feeling that we should just bite the bullet and
switch to a php framework...which will make everyone's job easier in
the end, even if it is a bit of work up front.
i've never used any php specific ones (only struts for our jsp stuff
at work), so can't make a good suggestion.  been reading quite a bit
about symfony lately, but it might be only php5.  otherwise, i've
heard good about cakephp, since it seems to be emulating rails, and
thus riding the popularity wave.
i'd imagine we'd be much better off implementing something that's
already available, rather than trying to build our own.

in any case, my concern is not so much the fat init.php, but the view
that is all over the place.  and if we want to really push out a nice
tableless, css based UI, we need a really efficient view.  (this also
helps if we decide to go down the ajax road as well)

anyway...just thought i'd add my 2 cents...perhaps some of the other
devs have some thoughts.  discussion is always good.  if it should be
done, i don't mind jumping in the cold water and starting with it.  i
just want to pass off some clean simple markup to khaled ASAP, so we
can begin seeing some initial versions of the new UI...that will be
really exciting...

/evan