Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications
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Book Contents

 Preface
 Chapter 1: Introduction to Smarty
Chapter 2: Smarty Site Architecture
 Chapter 3: What Designers Need to Know
 Chapter 4: Creating a Template
 Chapter 5: Advanced Templating
 Chapter 6: Smarty Functions
 Chapter 7: Debugging for Designers
 Chapter 8: Built-in Smarty Variables and Methods
 Chapter 9: Caching and Performance
 Chapter 10: Extending Smarty with Plug-ins
 Chapter 11: Filters
 Chapter 12: Internationalization
 Index

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 Chapter 2: Smarty Site Architecture

It has been a long time since websites have moved on from being simple HTML pages with no frames, no dynamic content, and only a few words about something. Nowadays, building a competitive website is a challenging process for those involved, no different than building most software applications.

  • Chapter 2: Smarty Site Architecture
    • Separation of Concerns
      • What Does Concern Mean?
      • A Problem-Solving Perspective
      • Cross-cutting Concerns
    • Roles Involved in Building and Maintaining a Website
    • Starting a Smarty Project
      • Directory Structure
      • Securing our Smarty Project
      • The Data Access Layer
        • How it Works
      • The Business Logic Layer
        • How it Works
      • The Presentation Layer
        • How it Works
      • The Result
    • Summary

 

 

 

    

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Released: April 2006
ISBN: 190481140X


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