With jQuery & CakePHP to World Domination
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With jQuery & CakePHP to World Domination
- 1. CakeFest Orlando 2008 With jQuery & CakePHP to World Domination by Felix GeisendĂśrfer
- 2. About me ⢠Felix GeisendĂśrfer, 20 years old, Germany ⢠Blogger / Programmer / Entrepreneur ⢠Used jQuery & CakePHP in all battle ďŹelds ⢠School projects, small business sites, 300++ DB table monster project
- 3. Blog about CakePHP ThinkingPHP.org
- 4. Deep inside the CakePHP core ThinkingPHP.org
- 5. Deep inside the CakePHP core Sometimes things just go wrong ThinkingPHP.org
- 10. Many empires tried to achieve it
- 11. World Domination Mauryan Empire Persian Empire Soviet Union Mongol Empire Macedonian Empire Roman Empire Nazi Germany Ming Empire Portuguese empire Arab Caliphate French Empire Spanish Empire Habsburg Empire Japanese Empire British Empire American Empire
- 12. World Domination Mauryan Empire Persian Empire Soviet Union & is Mongol Empire Roman Empire ut Macedonian Empire r N or Caliphate p N Arab Nazi Germany h Empire Ming Empire Portuguese empire P ck French Spanish Empire u Habsburg Empire hEmpire C Japanese British Empire American Empire
- 13. CakePHP & jQuery
- 15. The problems ⢠No jQuery JS helper available ⢠No manual on using jQuery + CakePHP ⢠No jQuery / CakePHP framework (except Jamal)
- 16. Why jQuery? ⢠Embraces succinct code ⢠Huge number of plugins out there ⢠Plays nice with other libraries
- 17. Why CakePHP? just kidding ...
- 18. Why CakePHP? ... well actually
- 19. Jaxer: The new guy in town ⢠Write entire web applications in JavaScript ⢠MySQL, SQLite, SMTP, File system access ⢠Server process stays alive
- 20. Jaxer: Why not? ⢠No Linux version yet Jaxer also works with (Cake)PHP ⢠Might not scale ⢠No Framework yet
- 21. So letâs take over the world ...
- 22. Getting your JS included Controller (app/controllers/posts_controller.php) The Q uick & View (app/views/posts/index.ctp) Easy Layout (app/views/layouts/default.ctp)
- 23. Problems youâll run into
- 24. Not DRY
- 25. Not DRY
- 26. Confusing wh at d o es ? e e r e fro m w h m F, T de c o W lu i nc
- 27. How to KISS this? ⢠Have a central place to deďŹne JS includes ⢠Only one reference to each JS ďŹle ⢠Simple rules for inclusion on a per action basis
- 28. Rule based JS inclusion app/conďŹg/js_includes.php (custom approach, not in cake core!)
- 29. The inclusion rule parser ib le Fl ex T he (Google â33 Lines of Magic Codeâ) Will talk about this in tomorrows talks
- 30. Automatic JS inclusion ⢠If âapp/webroot/js/views/layouts/{layout}.jsâ exists -> load it ⢠If âapp/webroot/js/views/{controller}/{view}.jsâ exists -> load it
- 31. Getting controller data to JS Yummy function for your AppController
- 32. Getting controller data to JS How to make a list of $posts available in JS
- 33. Getting controller data to JS (put this in your layouts <head> section) How to export your $jsonVars array to JavaScript
- 34. Getting controller data to JS How to access jsonVars in JavaScript
- 35. World Domination
- 36. PostTask.com ⢠Personal time management ⢠Next step: Becoming the best project management tool ⢠After that: World Domination l Break e rcia Co mm
- 38. MVC concept HTML / DOM Model CSS View JavaScript Controller
- 39. Ask audience Microformats who has heard about Microformat ⢠A collection of standardized HTML snippets ⢠Can be parsed by spiders, making your site semantic in a way thats actually useful ⢠Examples: hCard, rel-license, adr, geo ...
- 40. jayDom Microformats ⢠Usually non-standardized formats, custom to your application ⢠Can change as your app evolves ⢠You are already using them
- 42. jayDom Microformat Example Task.id Task.date
- 43. jayDom Microformat Example Task.name Task.progress Task.time_done Task.time_total
- 44. Microformat I/O ⢠In order to read data from our microformat, we need to parse it ⢠If we want to update our data we also need to be able to write to the microformat
- 45. Reading Microformat data Microformat snippet we are interested in Task.progress Ask: Anybody who doesnât know regex? How to parse the encoded progress value
- 46. Writing Microformat data Microformat snippet we are interested in How to encode progress value of â75â
- 47. Writing Microformat data Microformat snippet we are interested in How to encode progress value of â75â
- 48. jayDom way of semantic encoding Get: ea ts B Set: ea ts B
- 50. A real world example
- 52. jayDom Microformat Example Task.id Task.date
- 54. jayDom Microformat Example Task.progress Task.time_done
- 55. jayDom Microformat Example Task.progress Task.time_done Task.time_total
- 56. jayDom Microformat Example Task.name Task.progress Task.time_done Task.time_total
- 57. World Domination
- 58. jQuery Selectors on steriods Select all tasks with the name âNew Taskâ Select all tasks that are more then half done
- 59. jQuery Selectors on steriods ⢠Find all Posts ⢠That have at least one Comment written by Felix ⢠Only return posts that visible (not hidden)
- 60. Easy Ajax
- 61. jayDom Advantages ⢠Put your semantics to use ⢠Save tons of bandwidth on server calls using JSON ⢠Hassle-less client server communication
- 62. Questions ⢠Thanks for listening ⢠Thanks for helping the CakePHP project grow Slides will be available on ThinkingPHP.org shortly!