Having some issues with this, it seems to not like the fact that instead of creating a virtualhost I am trying to do it via a .htaccess instead

A lot of people seem to be getting on with this so what am I doing wrong?

For web dev, my favorite framework for ‘websites’ is Django, otherwise I develop a bit different for ‘web apps’ where I would use a bit different setup that would take a long minute to explain, perhaps my next article ;)

So if you have:

then in your sub template you can do:
extends(’layout.html’)?>
Hello World

Which would wrap your h1 in the extended template.

class MyPage
{
public function get(request)
{
// page code
return “Hello World”;
{
}

Using that same structure you could make a class like:

class AppController
{
protected function doSomething()
{
return “Something fun!”;
}
}

class MyPage extends AppController
{
public function get(request)
{
$this->doSomething();
return “Hello World”;
{
}

This is not a new way or anything, quite a few frameworks do it.

I’ll tell you exploring Rails has been an enlightening experience, and will help in the long run with PHP. HTH

P.S. If I was the IT guy I would have said “No I didn’t change anything” *thinking to himself* -> “I knew I shouldn’t have touched that option!” and then went and fixed it. I’d venture to say he did it, but then again I can’t see your code.

I have NO idea why my comments came through as Lars – guess I wasn’t paying attention to the stored fields.

It did turn out to be a mod_rewrite issue, although I’m still not entirely sure what it was. I hopped onto tech support chat (I’m cloud hosted, and wanted to confirm there were no weird hacks in place that might be causing problems). The tech support guy swears he didn’t change anything, but it suddenly stopped doing the 7-inserts and worked properly. So, needless to say, I’m skeptical that he didn’t change anything, but the situation is resolved.

I’m curious as to how you would suggest best handling (within this specific framework structure) functions and classes that affect a global template.

For example, in my template pages, I’m including a main header and footer template since that is the same throughout the site, but I’d like to make submenus, active navigation elements, etc easier to generate, so I would create a set of functions to handle those. Where in this file structure would you recommend keeping those, since the classes for everything else have specific places? In CakePHP or Symfony, that’s a little clearer, but I’m not sure what you envisioned in this one.

Thanks for the interest everyone!
Wess