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Building RIAs with JavaScript and CodeIgniterEd FinklerHiiDef.com / Goodsie.com@[email protected]://funkatron.com
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Buzzword alert!
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
RIAs
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RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
I prefer "rich front-end app"
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RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
A smart-ish client
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RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Can be built various ways
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old hat!
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Browser
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Ol' Proprietary Faithful
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Browser plugins
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New hotness (will be passé in 6 months)
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Web Runtime Platforms
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Titanium, AIR, XULRunner
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Desktop
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Titanium, PhoneGap, Palm webOS
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Mobile
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RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
How does CI fit into this?
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mmmm, glue
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
PHP is a great "glue language"
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superglue
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
CI gets us up and running quickly
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JSON, XML, etc
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Instead of HTML, we output data
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RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
My typical approach
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With extreme prejudice
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Toss out views
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Almost
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
All work done by model
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PHP objects, Serialized PHP, JSON, etc
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Models can return various formats
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Makes reuse easier
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Avoid heavy controllers
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Makes reuse easier
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Avoid heavy controllers
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RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Keep API in separate controller
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RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
CODE TYME
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RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Client side
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NOT FLASH/FLEX, DAMMIT
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
AIR
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RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Cobbled-together MVC structure
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DOM API == not fun
RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
jQuery for the fun stuff
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RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Use XHR (AJAX) to talk to server
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RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
CODE TYME
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RIAs with CodeIgniter and JavaScript - Ed Finkler - EECI 2010 - June 1, 2010
Resources
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• Server codehttp://github.com/funkatron/eeci2010-ria-server
• Client code - AIRhttp://github.com/funkatron/eeci2010-ria-client
• Client Code - Titanium Desktophttp://github.com/funkatron/eeci2010-ria-client-titanium
