components | Joe Codeswell - Notes to Myself and Others

I wrote a post to the google web2py-users group on this subject. This WordPress post will be my log of the work i am doing on this subject.

Here is a copy of my original web2py-users group post.

Dear web2py Forum,

Often i find myself making View pages that are NOT derived from layout.html and yet wanting to include some aspects of its capabilities.

I thought the web2py “Component” concept might help to deliver a modular approach.

My initial thoughts would be to pair small CSS files and HTML Component definitions for the following:

while maintaining a list of dependencies among them.

Has anyone thought about this granular approach before?

I would not want to use a Wizard for this, because in my experience, the generated code is unfamiliar to me and difficult to customize.

Thanks for a GREAT framework.

Love and peace,

Joe

1. i looked up web2py component

By def it seems that components

communicate with the component controller function via Ajax

Therefore the list of dependencies must contain ajax stuff.

2. add a new component to list:

navbar – is a complex component containing both menu and auth login stuff

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