NewClarity

Mike Schinkel

<p>WPLib is a plugin designed to be used as a Must-Use plugin or to be embedded in a theme to enable the development of complex yet robust and performant WordPress applications and websites.</p>
<p>WPLib is a foundation library upon which robust applications can be developed. WPLib is <strong>not</strong> intended for use by end-users but instead by professional PHP developers who are tasked with building specific applications or sites on the WordPress platform by their company or their clients.</p>
<p>Think of developing with WPLib to be somewhat like:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The joy of programming in Lavarel while respecting everything about WordPress that makes it an ideal platform for developing content management solutions.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>The WPLib source code is hosted and development occurs <a href="https://github.com/wplib/wplib/" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a> and the documentation site will soon be located at <a href="https://wplib.org" rel="nofollow ugc">wplib.org</a>.</p>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p>You will find documentation in its current state on the <a href="https://github.com/wplib/wplib/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>wiki</strong></a>.</p>


WPLib

A Foundation Library for Agency and Corporate Developers.

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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>


WPLib vs Churro