From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-09-10T07:42:56+09:00
Subject: Re: OO in practice


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kontra, Gergely" <kgergely@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu>


> Hi!
> 
> I began to write a little page, but I stopped for a moment. I'm sure the
> object design was somehow wrong.
> 
> I'd like to get some help how to organize my objects, and what are the
> objects.
> 
> The site is a little blackboard. On the blackboard there are
> programs, but it doesn't matter.
> Everybody can read the programs.
> Everybody can subscribe to get mail notification of new programs.
> To submit a new program, a user must register.
> Registration and subscription is validated: the user gets a random
> number to the mail addres given.
> 
> The programs are stored in a mysql DB.

Here's a quick take:
 - Blackboard has many Programs
 - Person accesses Blackboard
 - Blackboard has MailingList
 - Blackboard has a submission procedure
 - Person is registered or not, and has a class method Person.find(email,pass)
 - you need some classes to access the DB

> So the site will consist of some forms, the forms should be checked.
> If you submit a form with invalid data, you get back the same form,
> with the errors highlighted.

Err.... I don' know.

> 
> So, my question is about the design. What are the objects, how to
> organize the whole thing.
> 
> Gergo

Gavin