Theme controller.

[WanWizard]

Base controller with a concept of a parent "container" view.

[WanWizard]

@stevewest can you explain what you exactly mean by this?

[emlynwest]

So something along the lines of a Controller that has a "theme" view as a property containing the layout of the page. Then it will inject the action's result in to this view and return it as the response body.

Thinking about it "layout" might be better than "theme" and also this might be better done as some kind of middleware rather than a controller.

[WanWizard]

Ah, ok. I think that requires a bit more thought, as in a "themed" layout, it is seldom a single section that needs updated while the rest is static.

That is why the "FlexCoders" engine works the other way around, it defines the page with all it's seconds, and then uses HMVC calls to fetch the views for every individual section (which could be just hardcoded HTML of course). It was loosly modeled on Joomla's templating system.

[emlynwest]

At the moment it's just initial ideas, I suspect that this might be something that could be handled by the result of #31