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[!Cheyenne] Discussions about the Cheyenne Web Server

Graham
11-Aug-2010
[8775]
but one expects magic to be bug free
Terry
11-Aug-2010
[8776x3]
looks hard to maintain.


In PHP, I process/generate all the hypertext, and avoid the 'dynamic' 
aspect of web page creation altogether, so my page templates look 
like so;

<html>
<head>
<?= $cssincludes ?> // CSS
<?= $headincludes?> // JQuery, specific javascript functions  
</head>
<body>
<?= $body ?>
</body>
</html>
That's pseudo.. in reality, I have column definitions for templating 

<?

$var1 = "Column 1";
$var2 = "Column 2";
$var3 = "Column 3";

$c1.= "<div>$var1</div>";
$c2.= "<div>$var2</div>";
$c3.= "<div>$var3</div>";

//Column widths can be modified dynamically or set initially
<style>
#c1{
width: 50%;
}
#c2{
width: 25%
}
#c3{
width: 25%  
}

</style>

?>

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="content">
  <div id="c1">
  <?=$c1?>
  </div>
  <div id="c2">
  <?=$c2?>
  </div>
  <div id="c3">
  <?=$c3?>
  </div>
</body>
</html>
A simple 3 column template handles 97% of my needs
Oldes
11-Aug-2010
[8779]
As long as you have just simple pages, it's fine. You can use this 
with RSP easily as well.. but if you want to look at "hard to maintain" 
PHP code.. and have good nerves..just download Magento's sources 
and try to figure out what's going on.
Graham
22-Aug-2010
[8780x2]
This is a little odd .... I created a PDF and sent it back to the 
browser using the response, and application pdf, and the browser's 
security prevents it from downloading ....on some of the user's PC's 
( at a hospital ), but if I write the pdf to the disk and then redirect 
the browser to the file in the www directory, there's no complaint!
so, the browser is treating a PDF differently that is being sent 
directly via the response, as opposed to fetching the PDF using GET
Oldes
23-Aug-2010
[8782]
check the header.. probably using some other content-type.
Graham
23-Aug-2010
[8783x2]
it displays as a PDF for me ....
content-type is application/pdf
Oldes
23-Aug-2010
[8785]
Use wireshark and check for differencies
Graham
23-Aug-2010
[8786x2]
I used Firefox headers ...
The difference is between a GET and POST ... I wonder if the hospital 
has configure their security this way
Oldes
23-Aug-2010
[8788]
And cannot you store the generated PDF in temp and redirect to it's 
location using the GET request?
Graham
23-Aug-2010
[8789]
That's what I am having to do ...
florin
24-Aug-2010
[8790x5]
Graham, how'd you go about doing it?
Graham: Terry, I'm trying to get away from mixing html and rebol 
inside the view part of the page ...  this type of stuff   Hello 
<%= select session/content 'username %> ... looks hard to maintain.
Is the app-init.r file the place to map a template file (.html) to 
a mirror .r file? If so, we could use the response/buffer to have 
access to the dom. I tried to use the app-init.r file yet it did 
not work for me.
Wicket and Click are great example of how to get away from using 
scripting inside template files or even tags.
If I find a framework that does this for rebol, it will be the reason 
I'm looking for.
Graham
24-Aug-2010
[8795x2]
What's the question?
I pretty much gave up on using the app-init.r file ... it is supposed 
to be local to the app, but I found variables spilling to other apps
florin
24-Aug-2010
[8797]
The question is the remark you make to Terry: I'm trying to get away 
from mixing html and rebol inside the view part of the page ...  
this type of stuff   Hello <%= select session/content 'username %> 
... looks hard to maintain.
Graham
24-Aug-2010
[8798]
That's my remark ... what's your question?  :)
florin
24-Aug-2010
[8799x2]
What need for clean templeting is access to the html source file. 
I'd use the element ID to match with a backing .r file variable / 
component model. No scripting, no tags in the html file. So the question 
is, how can cheyenne let me map these two files?
/path-to-file/page.html mapping to /same-path/page.r. From here, 
page.r works on the response/buffer.
Graham
24-Aug-2010
[8801x2]
So chyenne loads page.html and does what?
You want cheyenne to load page.r instead?
florin
24-Aug-2010
[8803x2]
allows a mapped file to access the response/buffer before it returns 
it.
Yes, where page.r manipulates page.thml
Graham
24-Aug-2010
[8805]
maybe you need this http://cheyenne-server.org/docs/rsp-api.html#def-56
florin
24-Aug-2010
[8806]
exactly. I tried that tonight as I look at cheyenne for the first 
time. However, the on-page-start/end do not seem to work (in debug 
mode). The instructions are so simple I wonder why it would not work 
though.
Graham
24-Aug-2010
[8807x2]
are you using rsp pages?
And is it inside a webapp?
florin
24-Aug-2010
[8809x2]
Aha. No. I guess that's where it is. I used .htm. Yet I found that 
the script in the .htm file also is processed. So there is a difference.
Yes, inside a webapp.
Graham
24-Aug-2010
[8811x3]
It sounds like you want to do what I'm doing here http://rebol.wik.is/Cheyenne/Page_Title/HTML_dialect_demo
 

but have the html page act as the template
whereas i put both together
the element id or divs are used to control the layout of the template
florin
24-Aug-2010
[8814x2]
Yep. Yet, to my mind, it does not achieve my objective.
There is no way a page designer would get into this mess. Appealing 
though.
Graham
24-Aug-2010
[8816]
in that case .. the rsp page would just load the html ... no real 
difference
florin
24-Aug-2010
[8817]
What I need, is a clean html page that my code would not touch directly.
Graham
25-Aug-2010
[8818x2]
well, this has limitations.. what say you want to update all the 
javascript ??
and most html is dynamically generated for me ...
florin
25-Aug-2010
[8820]
From the html page? The javascript would only execute after the response 
buffer is closed.
Graham
25-Aug-2010
[8821x2]
I'm assuming that the JS and HTML are part of your template
so say your library updates . .you have to update all the pages that 
use the js libraries
florin
25-Aug-2010
[8823x2]
The JS is executed by the browser once the buffer is returned to 
the browser. What I want is a mapped .r file to process the DOM source 
on the server side. I don't see where the JS concern.
Graham: so say your library updates . .you have to update all the 
pages that use the js libraries" . The answer is yes. The html file 
would generally behave as any other html file that is not backed 
up by any server side.