Developer Guide

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

• Quick start guide
• Content
• The PageController
• Routing
• Controllers
• Loading javascript
• Setting up a custom theme
• Quick Reference
  • Images
  • Dates
• Modularity and Regimentation
• The 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()
    • Shortcuts
  • What about updates?
  • Table Joins and Complex Conditions
    • Left Joins
  • Ganging Results
  • Building the query programmatically
    • set_module
    • set_tablename
    • add_tablename
    • set_selectfields
    • add_selectfields
    • set_where_clause
    • prepend_where_clause
    • set_having_clause
    • set_join
    • set_left_join
    • set_right_join
    • set_union
    • get_count
    • get_record
• About Hydration
  • Smarter queries
  • When This is Useful
  • Modular Flexibility
• Integrating modules through events
• Debugging
  • The debugging module
  • Exception handling
• Sanitizing user input