Docs For Class ActionController - ManiaLib 1.0b1 API Reference

Description

Action controller This is the base class for all controllers. Extend ActionController to create a new controller for your application.

Naming conventions

Controller classes are suffixed by "Controller", naming is regular CamelCase class convention
Actions are regular camelCase convention
When creating links with the Request engine, use class and method names eg. createLink('SomeController', 'someAction')
Views folders and files use the same naming conventions as the classes/methods (eg. view/SomeController/someAction.php)
The URLs will be lowercase (camelCase is mapped to underscore-separated names)
You can change the default separator ("_") in the config using the APP_MVC_URL_SEPARATOR constant

Example

class HomeController extends ActionController
{
function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
$this->addFilter(new RegisterRequestParametersFilter());
}
function index() {} // mapped by /home/index/
function anotherAction() {} // mapped by /home/another_action/
}

Located in /mvc/libraries/ActionController.class.php (line 42)

Variable Summary

mixed $controllerName

string $defaultAction

RequestEngineMVC $request

ResponseEngine $response

SessionEngine $session

Method Summary

void addFilter (Filterable $filter)

void chainAction ( $controllerName, $actionName)

void chainActionAndView ( $controllerName, $actionName, [ $resetViews = true])

void onConstruct ()

Variables

mixed $controllerName (line 52)

Current controller name

access: protected

string $defaultAction = APP_MVC_DEFAULT_ACTION (line 48)

Overrride this to define the controller's default action name

access: protected

RequestEngineMVC $request (line 66)

access: protected

ResponseEngine $response (line 74)

access: protected

SessionEngine $session (line 70)

access: protected

Methods

addFilter (line 139)

Add a filter to the curent controller Typically you should call that in your controller's onConstruct() method

Example:

class SomeStuffController extends ActionController
{
//...
function onConstruct()
{
$this->addFilter(new UserAgentCheckFilter());
}
//...
}

access: protected

void addFilter (Filterable $filter)

Filterable $filter

chainAction (line 156)

Executes an action from within another action

access: protected

void chainAction ( $controllerName, $actionName)

$controllerName
$actionName

chainActionAndView (line 172)

Executes an action from within another action and override the view from the first action

access: protected

void chainActionAndView ( $controllerName, $actionName, [ $resetViews = true])

$controllerName
$actionName
$resetViews

onConstruct (line 120)

Stuff to be executed when the controller is instanciated; override this in your controllers

access: protected

void onConstruct ()