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<p>Churro is a plugin that allows developers to easily create pages and functionality, in a style similar to CodeIgniter.  By itself, Churro will not add any functionality to your WordPress site.</p>
<p>Tested with WordPress and WordPress MU 2.8.0 ~ 3.0.5<br />
Requires PHP 5.  PHP 4 is like 10 years old, you know?</p>
<h3>Churro Basics</h3>
<p>= URLs =<br />
Churro requires friendly urls rather than query strings.  Your url will usually be mapped as following: <code>yoursite.com/class/method/variables</code></p>
<h4>Controllers</h4>
<p>The controller will be directly mapped to a file and class with the same name.  For example,<br />
        yoursite.com/contact<br />
will look for a file named contact.php in the /churro/ directory.  This file should have a class contact that extends Churro.  Without a defined method, it will default to index.  All methods accessible through URLs will have ‘Action’ appended to it.  The following code will provide scaffolding for <code>yoursite.com/contact</code> and <code>yoursite.com/contact/submit</code></p>
<pre><code><?php
class contact extends Churro {
    public function indexAction(){

    }

    public function submitAction(){

    }
}
</code></pre>
<h4>Models</h4>
<p>Churro gives you access to several important WordPress Models through the <code>$this</code> keyword.  The <code>$wp</code>, <code>$wpdb</code>, and <code>$wp_query</code> classes, as well as <code>$blog_id</code> in MU are all availble without using the global keyword, eg <code>$this->wpdb</code>.</p>
<h4>Views</h4>
<p>Your views belong in your normal theme directory.  If you are using multiple themes, you can override the direcotry using <code>$this->Theme( 'directory-name' )</code> any place in the controller.  To specify a view to use, <code>$this->View( 'file-name' )</code>.  Seperating logic from  views is the most important thing to remember in Churro.  To set varaibles in your view, use <code>$this->vars->var_name</code> in the controller, and <code>$var_name</code> in your view.</p>
<h4>Ajax / Javascript</h4>
<p>If you use the excellent jQuery javascript library, Churro will detect ajax requests and automatically return JSON.  Churro defines a constant <code>ISAJAX</code> on each request.  With a little planning, it is very easy to create a dynamic application in a way that is totally accessible without javascript.</p>
<h3>Learning Churro</h3>
<p>There is much more functionality in Churro than outlined here.  As of September 2, 2009, there is no complete, formal, documentation for writing code with Churro.  Stay tuned to <a href="http://labs.findsubstance.com/" title="The passionate voice for interactive brand strategy and creative experiences" rel="nofollow ugc">Substance Labs</a> for tutorials.</p>


Churro

Francis Crossen

<p>Tina MVC provides you with base classes and helper classes and functions on which you build your WordPress applications.</p>
<p>It uses a lose model view controller pattern to abstract design and logic and make life easier for you and your HTML designer.</p>
<h3>Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Completely separate your code from WordPress themes. Your users can change their theme and still retain your application functionality.</li>
<li>A helper class for generating and processing HTML forms.</li>
<li>A helper class for generating paginated tables from SQL (for when custom posts are not appropriate).</li>
<li>A helper class for generating HTML tables from your data.</li>
<li>Separation of your code from core Tina MVC files for easy upgrades.</li>
<li>Compact and non-intrusive. Currently 3 filters plus 1 action hook for widgets and 1 shortcode hook are used for basic usage.</li>
<li>A function to allow you to call a Tina MVC controller from your theme file (breaks the MC) or from another controller.</li>
<li>Flexible enough for quick procedural prototyping – don’t like MVC? No problem!</li>
</ul>
<h3>Tutorials, Documentation and Code Samples</h3>
<p>All Tina MVC documentation is included with the plugin. After activating the plugin you can access it from the WordPress admin back end. (Look for the Tina MVC administration page.)<br />
Source code is liberally commented for PhpDocumentor.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This version is GPL v2 licensed. If you are interested in alternative licensing models, or in commercial support, please contact the author at http://www.seeit.org/about-us/.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>Support for this version is available at https://wordpress.org/tags/tina-mvc?forum_id=10 or by leaving a comment at http://www.seeit.org/tina-mvc-for-wordpress/.</p>
<h3>Known Issue(s)</h3>
<p>Tina MVC support for permalinks based on post name is experimental. Currently it generates a PHP warning from a core WordPress file.</p>


Author: Francis Crossen (fcrossen)

Tina MVC is a Wordpress framework that allows you to develop plugins, shortcodes and and widgets.

Churro vs Author: Francis Crossen (fcrossen)