Developer Guide

The following pages are for advanced users, and explain some of the inner working of Manifesto.

• Quick start guide
• Important Concepts in Manifesto
  • Content
  • The PageController
  • Routing
  • Controllers
  • Loading javascript
• Setting up a custom theme
• The template hierarchy
• Flow
  • For the home page
  • For most other pages
• Modularity and Regimentation
• Manifesto Directory Structure
• Defining Routes
  • Creating a custom route
  • The Category
• Models and the Object class
• Page Templates
• View Templates
• Controllers
• Database Queries
  • Retrieving Data: get_record()
  • What about updates?
  • Table Joins and Complex Conditions
  • Ganging Results
  • Building the query programmatically
• About Hydration
  • Smarter queries
  • When This is Useful
  • Modular Flexibility
• Creating a repeating field
  • Adding to the editing form
  • Handling the “Add another”
  • Processing the editing form
• Integrating modules through events
• Debugging
  • The debugging module
  • Exception handling
  • Logging
• Sanitizing user input
  • Cleantext options
• Quick Reference
  • Images
  • Dates