[erlyweb-list] Re: s and other non-component data</span></a></span> </h1> <p class="darkgray font13"> <span class="sender pipe"><a href="/search?l=erlyweb@googlegroups.com&q=from:%22Yariv+Sadan%22" rel="nofollow"><span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Yariv Sadan</span></span></a></span> <span class="date"><a href="/search?l=erlyweb@googlegroups.com&q=date:20071116" rel="nofollow">Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:30:07 -0800</a></span> </p> </div> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="msgBody"> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <pre> Hi David, There are a couple of things I can suggest.</pre><pre> - A while ago somebody asked a similar question and Bryan Fink suggested returning a tuple of the form {title, Title} from the view function, and then later picking up this tuple in the html_container_controller and using its value to set the <title> tag. - Use the process dictionary to store any values that need to be used later outside the current component. Let me know if it works for you. Btw, just curious, what parts of ErlyWeb are you rewriting? Yariv On Nov 16, 2007 10:19 AM, David King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > erlyweb uses a component system for rendering pages. It makes most of > my controller functions return lists like this: > > [{data,post:title(Post)}, > {ewc,post,contents,[A,Post]}, > {ewc,comment,comments,[A,post:comments(Post)]}] > > The view function then looks like: > > <%@ show([Title,Contents,Comments]) %> > <h1><% Title %></h1> > <div class="post_contents"><% Contents %></div> > <ul class="comments><% Comments %></ul> > > I really like this, because it allows me to separate the view-logic > for things like contents and comments out from each other, which > makes changing the behaviour of these quite simple, localised, and re- > useable. (In fact, as I re-write portions of erlyweb for my purposes, > the component system is something that I haven't touched at all > because it works quite well.) However, it has an inherent limitation: > none of those functions can return data to be rendered outside of > their components. In my case, I'd like to be able to set <title> > tags, which means that the top-level controller function (by top- > level, I mean the one referenced in the URL; like in /post/show/12, > the top-level controller function would be show/2) needs to somehow > return information to be rendered outside its little sandbox. > > I see that Vimagi doesn't set <title> tags (neither <http:// > vimagi.com/p/0PXmMRe6hGV> nor <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://vimagi.com/users/feeling3_4">http://vimagi.com/users/feeling3_4</a>> > set one, at least, and those are where I'd expect to see them), but > BeerRiot does (<<a rel="nofollow" href="http://beerriot.com/beer/view/1751">http://beerriot.com/beer/view/1751</a>>; BTW I do love > the idea of having a controller called "beer_controller"). > > It isn't limited to <title>s (for instance, I may want to alert the > browser that an RSS equivalent of this page exists, or what the > caching TTL is for this page in the HTTP headers). Conceptually, how > would one go about returning this extra information, while still > using the component system (I now have a lot of code that uses it > that I'd like to not re-write :) )? > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "erlyweb" group. 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