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List:       midgard-user
Subject:    Re: [midgard] Midgard for webapps?
From:       Jukka Zitting <hukka () greywolves ! org>
Date:       1999-09-29 15:35:20
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Hi,

Sebastian Andersson wrote:
> Does midgard contain something that I call "html widgets" ?
> With that I mean that it is possible to package code and html and then
> create a html page by filling it with these "widgets". The system handles
> user interaction (users pressing links/buttons) and presentation until
> a callback function/event/signal handler is called to show a new page
> or change the contents of a widget.

You could say that the Midgard elements are a kind of "html widgets".
You can store HTML and PHP code in an element and then use a template
code to activate the element. Midgard does not contain any generic state
management system that would make these "widgets" interactive right out
of the box. You can however quite easily add a bit of PHP code to make
the page act interactively.

For example the "Latest news" box of the Midgard web site could be
interpreted as a html widget. It is defined only once in the site style
and used everywhere on the site. It's contents are dynamically
generated. It could even contain a text field for doing simple searches
on the news without leaving the currently selected page.

Jukka Zitting

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