[eluser]CodeTroll[/eluser]
Hi,
I am trying to develop an application where a blog is a part of it. I am a little baffled as how to best implement what I need so I am turning to the collective braintrust here on the board
Currently I have a controller (blog) that handles both the actual blog entries, as well as the comments for each blog. I also have a model (blog_model) to handle all the DB action.
Both on the actual blog page of the application, as well as in other parts of the application I want to show a list of the latest 5 blog entries. I have a list of blog components that I would like to be able to show in various combinations:
showLatest5BlogEntries (this will be shown on various other pages besides the actual blog pages)
showLatestBlogEntry
showBlogComments (shows blog comments for a specific blog entry)
showAllBlogEntriesThisMonth
showBlogSearchForm (takes year + month as input)
showBlogSearchResults (shows a list of blog entries matching the above criterias)
showBlogEntryForm (this is where the owner enters a new blog entry)
showBlogCommentForm (this is where visitors and owner comments on each blog entry)
On the blog entry page I want to have the following components shown:
Main content area:
showLatestBlogEntry
showBlogComments
showBlogCommentForm
Sidebar area:
showLatest5BlogEntries (clicking on a title here will take the user to a page with the chosen blog entry and the corresponding comments)
On the blog search page:
Main content area:
showAllBlogEntriesThisMonth
Sidebar area:
showBlogSearchForm (takes year + month as input)
On the blog search results page:
Main content area:
showBlogSearchResults (clicking on a title here will take the user to a page with the chosen blog entry and the corresponding comments)
Sidebar area:
showBlogSearchForm (takes year + month as input)
There are more pages of course (blog entry form page ie, but the above covers the main functionality). I am using views, rather than templates, but I am not sure how all this should be broken down into controllers and views?
Would it be a good idea to have a controller for the blogcomments for example? (this would make it possible to have the same url endings for both a blog entry and a blog comment (ie /blog/edit/1, blogcomment/edit/4 etc... )
Any one can point me in the proper direction of how to break things down to accomplish this task?
Thank you for your time
