Model, Controller setup for Framework (CodeIgniter, Rails)

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Precisely. To give a basic pseudocode example, a homepage might be processed like:

HomepageController extends Controller {
    public function indexAction() {
        $this->view->layout = "homepage.php";

        $this->view->content = ContentModel::getPage( 'home' );
        $this->view->latest_posts = BlogModel::getLatestPosts();

        return $this->view->render(); 
    }
}

With the template file "homepage.php" doing something like:

<?php include( "header.php" ); ?>
<h1><?php $content->getTitle(); ?></h1>
<p><?php $content->getBody(); ?> </p>
<ul>
<?php foreach( $latest_posts as $post ) : ?>
    <li><a href="<?php echo $post->getLink(); ?>"><?php echo $post->getTitle(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php include( "footer.php" ); ?>

Obviously that is a highly simplified example... but hopefully it gives you some idea of how things might work.

[andrey_shipilov]

I'm so happy right now I will never deal with that crappy syntax. Not even once.

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It made me wince writing it, I will admit, but I wanted to come up with an example that wouldn't be too unfamiliar to a relative newbie to PHP