The Definitive Guide to Agavi
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The Definitive Guide to Agavi

$Id: manual.xml 1823 2007-03-06 08:47:59Z david $

Table of Contents

Preface

1. An Introduction

1. Agavi, a (Web) Application Framework

1.1. What a Framework Is
1.2. What a Framework Should Do
1.3. What a Framework Shouldn't Do

2. A Brief Look at Agavi's History

2. Getting Started

1. Prerequisites

2. Installation

2.1. PEAR
2.2. By Hand
2.3. From SVN
2.4. Apache Web Server Configuration
2.5. LightTPD Configuration
2.6. Microsoft IIS Configuration

3. The Sample Application

4. Creating Your First Agavi Application

3. Agavi Basics

1. System Architecture

2. Elements of an Application

3. Environments and Contexts

3.1. A Closer Look at Context Initialization

4. How a Request is Processed

5. Configuration

5.1. Basic Configuration Concepts
5.2. General Format and Environment-/Context-Specific Blocks
5.3. Parameter Blocks
5.4. Value Substitution and Configuration Directives

6. Request and Routing

6.1. Request
6.2. Routing

7. Actions and Models

7.1. Models
7.2. Actions

8. Views, Renderers and Templates

9. Output Types and Response

10. Session Handling and Security

10.1. Role-Based Access Control

11. Validation

11.1. Why Validation?
11.2. When does Validation happen
11.3. How to validate
11.4. Handling Validation errors
11.5. The FormPopulationFilter
11.6. Other things Validators can do for you
11.7. Available Validators
11.8. Examples

12. Filters

13. Internationalization

13.1. translation domains?!
13.2. Lets get started
13.3.

14. Databases

14.1. Database Connection Configuration
14.2. Using the Connection

15. Logging

4. Agavi Reference

15.1. Configuration via translation.xml
15.2. Defining available locales
15.3. Setting the current locale
15.4. Methods being used for translation
15.5. Writing custom message translators
15.6. Overwriting the data from the CLDR

16. User

17. Validation

18. Views

5. Configuration handler tag reference

1. General Tags

1.1. Keywords
1.2. <configurations>
1.3. <configuration>

2. AutoloadConfigHandler Tags (autoload.xml)

2.1. <autoloads>
2.2. <autoload>

3. CompileConfigHandler Tags (compile.xml)

3.1. <compiles>
3.2. <compile>

4. ConfigHandlersConfigHandler Tags (config_handlers.xml)

4.1. <handlers>
4.2. <handler>

5. DatabaseConfigHandler Tags (databases.xml)

5.1. <databases>
5.2. <database>

6. FactoryConfigHandler Tags (factories.xml)

6.1. <*>

7. FilterConfigHandler Tags (*_filters.xml)

7.1. <filters>
7.2. <filter>

8. LoggingConfigHandler Tags (logging.xml)

8.1. <loggers>
8.2. <logger>
8.3. <logger>/<appenders>
8.4. <logger>/<appenders>/<appender>
8.5. <appenders>
8.6. <appender>
8.7. <layouts>
8.8. <layout>

9. OutputTypeConfigHandler Tags (output_types.xml)

9.1. <output_types>
9.2. <output_type>
9.3. <renderer>

10. RbacDefinitionConfigHandler Tags (e.g. rbac_definitions.xml)

10.1. <roles>
10.2. <role>
10.3. <permissions>
10.4. <permission>

11. RoutingConfigHandler Tags (routing.xml)

11.1. <routes>
11.2. <route>
11.3. <ignores>
11.4. <ignore>
11.5. <defaults>
11.6. <default>

12. SettingConfigHandler Tags (settings.xml)

12.1. <exception_templates>
12.2. <exception_template>
12.3. <settings>
12.4. <setting>
12.5. <system_actions>
12.6. <system_action>

13. TranslationConfigHandler Tags (translation.xml)

13.1. <available_locales>
13.2. <available_locale>
13.3. <translators>
13.4. <translator>
13.5. <message_translator>
13.6. <number_formatter>
13.7. <currency_formatter>
13.8. <date_formatter>
13.9. <filters>
13.10. <filter>

14. ValidatorConfigHandler Tags (validate/*.xml)

14.1. <validator_definitions>
14.2. <validator_definition>
14.3. <validators>
14.4. <validator>
14.5. <arguments>
14.6. <argument>
14.7. <errors>
14.8. <error>

List of Examples

3.1. translation.xml
3.2. Translation message strings
3.3. Formatting currencies and numbers
3.4. Formatting dates
5.1. autoload.xml
5.2. compile.xml
5.3. config_handlers.xml
5.4. databases.xml

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