Jamal Helper

cakebaker — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:32:50 +0000

In the last few days I experimented again with the Javascript MVC framework Jamal. To make its usage a bit easier I wrote a simple helper (you can find it in the downloads section).

As usual, you have to add the helper to the $helpers array of your controller(s) before you can use it:

var $helpers = array('Jamal');

The helper provides two public methods: link() and set().

The link() method is used in the head section of the layout to include all Jamal-related files.

echo $jamal->link();

If DEBUG is greater than 0, it creates something like:

As soon as you switch DEBUG to 0, it will include the packed version of your scripts (you have to pack them “manually” with the Ant script that comes with Jamal):

The second method, set(), is used to specify which (Javascript) controller action is executed when the respective view is loaded. So in the view you will do something like:

$jamal->set('MyController', 'myAction');

Additionally, you have to add the variable $jamal_for_layout to the body tag of your layout:

This will then generate the following code for Jamal:

>body class="jamal {controller:'MyController',action:'myAction',debug:false}">

Happy baking with Jamal :)

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Jamal Helper