RevIgniter is Fabulous!

[-=>JB<=-]

I am not using revigniter yet but I downloaded it and have been reading
since your post.  I am really new to web programming and irev has very
little info unless they wrote documentation I don't know about so I have
been learning web basics from other sources.

Thanks for the reply and the offer to see your code.  I will probably take
you up on that offer when I learn more.

-=>JB<=-



On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:

> On 3/23/11 7:05 PM, -=>JB<=- wrote:
>> That looks very nice.  Was everything made with Revigniter?
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>> -=>JB>=
> http://dev.himalayanacademy.com/books
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> When you say "everything made with" depends what you mean. The navigation menus at the top are pure simple CSS. I use John Alsop's Style Master for CSS.  Are you using RevIgniter?
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> But the entire page assembly is revIgniter.
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> The rotating selection of the head image (changes on page load) is driven by a simple 4 line function .. actually it could have been two lines. No JS or Ajax there. The data for the book on the page is all drawn from an external source piped in through a "model"  HTML is assembled from six "views" -html "chunks"  and most of the content of these is made up of variables that are poked in the controller. That's what is impressive, the number of operations and "gets" that are being performed by LiveCode Server before the page is sent out (I count at least 30 operations done to put this one page together) is significant enough that you would think you might start to feel some processing sluggishness: but no -- it feels almost instantaneous. take a look at the time to render at the bottom of the page.
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> Part of this is because there is no html in a data base (ala other PHP CMS frameworks... "irritating"... you log in, choose a module, click on a list and "hello" there you are face-to-face with HTML in a "record.") instead we will just use the database  for media assets metadata storage. So even when we get to using queries to generate some parts of the page content, it will be very fast, because we will still get the html direct from disk.
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> Of course this is just a design decision as revIgniter would certainly support html code chunks being stored in dbase if you wanted to go that route, (I never will!) and I guess the CodeIgniter PHP framework is also very fast. i.e. you will have to cook your own CMS...and that's a different discussion.
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> If you want to see any of the code, happy to share.
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