I want to build a cms using the mvc architecture. It must support different types of sections, for example file collection type(images, files etc, ex for the ‘photos’ section), just a simple html (ex: ‘about us’ section), collection of htmls in a blog style (ex ‘announcements’ section or main page). I need it to be expandable. Let’s say someone wants to add a new type of section. He/she should be able to add a module of code, following some very basic given guidelines, and the module should then be able to interact with the cms.

So, I thought: Each section type, will have its sub-controller,sub-view,sub-model. There should be a main controller. It gets the request. Based on the arguments, it passes it down to the appropriate sub-controller(for example if the requested action is to rename a file of some file collection, it invokes the file collection sub-controller). The sub-controller communicates with the sub-model to perform the requested actions. I think, so far, so good.

Now, the view part is where things get a bit complicated. First of all. I’m not entirely sure as to what the view in the mvc pattern is supposed to do. Does it just get the data from the controller, and prints it in html? Or does it communicate directly with the model, to get the right data? Let’s take also another scenario. Let’s suppose that in one page, I want to display data from different section types, thus different modules, each one with its separate sub-view etc. How do all the sub-views get compiled together, if all the data is sent from the main controller? Would it be right to use the main controller only for the ‘actions’ request, and forward all the display requests to the main-view? I’m a bit confused as you can understand.

Take this blog of yours for example. In the main page, it shows all the recent post, with only the first few lines of each post’s body. If you browse to a certain post, it shows only that post, plus the comments in the bottom and the post comment form. So, the controller takes the request. What happens after that? Who communicates with the model to get the data? Who decides if the comments form will appear or not? The controller or the view? Could you possibly clarify any of this? Thanks in advance. Goodnight.

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