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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
An example of Model-View-Controller techniques in a Perl / CGI script

Separating out the look and feel of a web application, the calculation logic involved therein, the standard stuff that's needed in most web applications, and the glue that holds the pieces together was become pretty standard web programming practise.

We call the look and feel the VIEW
We call the calculation logic the MODEL
We call the standard stuff that runs it all the FRAMEWORK
We call the glue holding it together the CONTROLLER
And we call the standard functions we need to do extra bits the HELPERS

If you have with a very small application, then all this separating out of elements is more trouble than it's worth ... and on our courses, we start with small applications. However, in the last couple of days I wrote a Perl script using the Common Gateway Interface as part of a web server deployment course, and split it down to show where the elements come from. The complete script is here and you can run it [here].

Take a look at the script, projected here on the left, and you'll see the work I did on the course to show delegates where each of the elements lie in my simple script.

• the HTML at the page base is the view
• the calculation code to convert a height and weight into a BMI is the model
• the logic that takes and checks the inputs, calls the model and puts the results into a hash is the controller
• Helpers populate the view with the contents of the hash and output them
• the framework is new code that's written to wrap the other components together.

So the actual code ...
The Framework - [here]
The Model - [here]
The View - [here]
The Controller - [here]
and the Helpers [here].

(written 2014-11-20)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
Q915 - Object Orientation and General technical topics - Principles of Model - View - Controller
  [687] Presentation, Business and Persistence layers in Perl and PHP - (2006-04-17)
  [2199] Improving the structure of your early PHP programs - (2009-05-25)
  [2612] The Model, View, Controller architecture (MVC) - what, why and how. - (2010-02-01)
  [3237] Using functions to keep look and feel apart from calculations - simple C example - (2011-04-09)
  [3454] Your PHP website - how to factor and refactor to reduce growing pains - (2011-09-24)
  [3624] Why do we need a Model, View, Controller architecture? - (2012-02-25)
  [3705] Django Training Courses - UK - (2012-04-23)
  [3919] What is a web framework? - (2012-11-10)
  [4010] Really Simple Rails - (2013-02-17)
  [4066] MVC and Frameworks - a lesson from first principles in PHP - (2013-04-19)
  [4114] Teaching CodeIgniter - MVC and PHP - (2013-06-12)
  [4391] Refactoring Perl applications to give them a rosy future - (2015-01-11)
  [4527] Hello Flask world / Python web micro framework - (2015-10-11)
  [4641] Using an MVC structure - even without a formal framework - (2016-02-07)
  [4691] Real life PHP application using our course training MVC example - (2016-06-05)

P774 - Perl - Good CGI scripting.
  [261] Putting a form online - (2005-03-29)
  [262] A little bit of fun - the new Perl Quiz - (2005-03-30)
  [263] Harmony - (2005-03-31)


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