[basic request handling
thomashartman1@gmail.com**20080620013632] hunk ./src/Controller.hs 14
-
+import ControllerBasic
hunk ./src/Controller.hs 20
-    tutorial ++ loginHandlers ++ miscHandlers ++ staticfiles
+    tutorial ++ loginHandlers ++ simpleHandlers ++ staticfiles
hunk ./src/Controller.hs 31
-miscHandlers = [
-       exactdir "testtgio" favoriteAnimal
-       , (exactdir "home" home )
-       , (exactdir "home/1" home1 )
-       , (exactdir "ioaction" helloworldio)
-       , dir "dirdemo" [ msgToSp "dir match. subpages will work" ]
-       , exactdir "exactdirdemo" [ msgToSp "Your request matched the exactdir request handler" ]
-
-       -- fileserve handles all possible requests, not that this is necessarily a good thing
-       --  , msgToSp  "Sorry, we can't find that page."
-    ]
+-- serve arbitrary io actions: read files, fetch from database 
+helloworldio = [ ioMsgToSp iovalue ] 
+  where iovalue :: IO HtmlString
+        iovalue = (return . HtmlString ) "hello<br>world"
hunk ./src/Controller.hs 58
-home = [ msgToSp "Welcome to HAppS Tutorial"]
-home1 = [ msgToSp "Welcome to HAppS Tutorial, page 1"]
-
-favoriteAnimal = [withTemplate "myhomepage" f]
-  where f = setAttribute "favoriteAnimal" "giraffe" 
-
--- serve arbitrary io actions: read files, fetch from database 
-helloworldio = [ ioMsgToSp iovalue ] 
-  where iovalue :: IO HtmlString
-        iovalue = (return . HtmlString ) "hello<br>world"
-
hunk ./templates/basic-url-handling.st 1
-<h3>Basic URL Handling in HAppS</h3>
+<h3>Basic Request Handling in HAppS</h3>
hunk ./templates/basic-url-handling.st 3
-<ul>
+<p>One of the most basic functions of a web framework is to give you a way of controlling what happens when a web browser makes an http request.</p>
+
+<p>Before explaining the theory of request handling in HAppS, let's look at some simple examples.</p>
+
+<!-- who cares about MVC?... <p>In the <a href="tk">FIX LINK... MVC paradigm</a> employed by Ruby on Rails and other popular frameworks, this is the task of the Controller. </p> -->
+
+<ol>
+  <li> read the source code of the simpleHandlers function in <a href="/src/ControllerBasic.hs">ControllerBasic.hs</a> to see how urls are handled in HApps</li>
hunk ./templates/basic-url-handling.st 12
-  <li> read the source code of the "impl" function in <a href="/src/Main.hs">Main.hs</a> to see how urls are handled in HApps</li>
-</ul>
+</ol>
hunk ./templates/basic-url-handling.st 16
+  <li><a href="/simpleRequestHandler">A simple request handler</a></li>
+  <li><a href="/exactdirAndmsgToSp">Same idea, using exactdir and msgToSp</a></li>
+  <li><a href="/exactdirAndmsgToSp/anotherResponse">exactdirAndmsgToSp/anotherResponse</a></li>
+  <li><a href="/ioaction">IO Response</a</li>
+  <li><a href="/ioaction2">Another IO Response</a</li>
+  <li><a href="/htmlAttemptWrong">First attempt at formatted html (wrong)</a></li>
+  <li><a href="/htmlAttemptRight">Second attempt at formatted html (right)</a></li>
+