Standart functions
As member of the MVC paradigm each package may have up to 5 standart functions (in the beyond list they are placed in the exact
order as they are called in the page generation function). They are:
- pre_generation( $Options ) - this function is called before any generating actions and used for some validations. It does not modify page's content
because it is called before any generations and controller/view calls.
- pre_process( $Options , $ProcessingString , &$Changed ) - this function is called to modify structure of the generated page, but some times it is
also used to replace some macro.
- controller( $Options ) - this function processes all commands from gui and external requests (ajax requests
for example)
- view( $Options ) - this (and only this) function generates GUI and any other output
- post_process( $Options , $ProcessingString , &$Changed ) - this function almost always is used to replace macro.
Here $Options are page generation settings wich are taken from the page description. $ProcessingString is a generating page's
content wich can be modified by MVC components. And &$Changed is flag wich must be set if the $ProcessingString was changed while function execution.
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