ATK book

This is a development page for the ATK docbook.

The 'ATK docbook' is a working name for ATK documentation in the form of a book, being developed by the ATK docteam. For more information and discussion, please see the talk page.

Introduction

Audience?

Purpose?

Why a book?

Why ATK?

• Business framework
• Strengths
• Weaknesses

Getting started: Basic functionality

• Retrieving ATK
• Setting up the application structure
• File system rights
• Application configuration
• Basic CRUD functionality with nodes and modules
• Debugging

Basic ATK concepts

• Module, Nodes, relations, attributes introduction
• Making modules
  • module_preload
• Making nodes
  • NF_LOCK, pessimistic locking, optimistic locking
• Using common attributes
• Configuring attributes with flags
• Using Relations
• Configuring relations with flags

Actions and Node customization

• Node flags
• Filters
• Descriptors
• atkDataNode, atkTreeNode
• Actions
• Magic methods
• ActionListeners
• Initial values
• Custom actions
• atkFeedBack
• Tabs, Groups, Sections and FieldSets

Validation and triggers

• Server side validation
• Magic triggers
• Listeners
• Javascript listeners

i18n, l10n and themes

• Languages
• Multilanguage support
• Theming your application

Utilities

• atktools
• Datatypes
• Utility classes: atkDataHolder, atkMessageQueue, atkStringParser, atkZip
• atkFrontController
• atkDocumentwriter
• Database abstraction layer (atkQuery)

Application security

• Users and profiles
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Using the session
• Improving ATK application layout

Optimizing code and performance

• atkMetaNode
• atkCache

Automated tests

• Testcases
• Unit tests
• Fixtures
• Mocking

Advanced: Extending existing applications

• Modifiers
• Overloaders
• Cron

Misc?

• atkWizard
• Multiple databases