Object Orientation and General technical topics - Principles of Model - View

Object Orientation and General technical topics module Q915

Principles of Model - View - Controller

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module Q915. This topic is presented on public course Ruby on Rails

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687	Presentation, Business and Persistence layers in Perl and PHP I've been writing about the Presentation, Business and Persistence tiers (and within each of them the MVC or Model, View, Controller or MVC structure) for a JBoss presentation I'm doing this week - but I scarcely expected to find myself putting them to good if unusual use this evening when sorting out ...	2008-05-10

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Topics covered in this module

Architectuires for a web application.
The importance of keeping the elements apart.
Model - View - Controller - a look at each.
The Python way - frameworks such as Django.
The Ruby way - Ruby on Rails.
The PHP way - 4 layer model / Smartie, etc.

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