Ubuntu Wanted Rewrite finished

I feel empty now I don’t have to work on rewriting Ubuntu Wanted anymore. I feel so empty I only wrote

MVC-pattern rewritten
The MVC-pattern is now applied more strictly.

in the changelog.
After several days of work I know managed to let the code do roughly the same with 3117 lines of code more, which means the codebase has almost doubled.

Why would I do this? Why would I make such an effort to expand the codebase so much while there doesn’t change a lot to the external behaviour?
Because now the MVC-pattern is applied strictly and the models can do more than just presenting information it’s just a matter of connecting wires when you want to add a page. No need for writing lots of queries.
Because of the new store function it’s going to be a a lot easier to add AJAX functionality and it already makes it easier to update entries.
The data is loaded into Model::data and when you call Model::store() the data is compared to a copy (Model::_data_copy) and all changes are written to the database.

Now on something different: I created a milestone for Ubuntu Wanted called usable, if all bugs and blueprints marked for that milestone are finished/fixed we can start with testing Ubuntu Wanted in a Real Life Situation. I found milestones a lot easier to use than mind maps, so I’m going to dump the mind map I blogged about earlier in favour of Launchpad.

Lets show some stats! Everyone loves stats!

I let Ohcount examine the branch before and after revision 18, which gave these results:

Before

Examining 79 file(s).

Ohloh Line Count Summary

Language          Files       Code    Comment  Comment %      Blank      Total
—————-  —–  ———  ———  ———  ———  ———
php                         31       2173       1020      31.9%        646       3839
css                           9        2122            73        3.3%        185       2380
html                      31          397              9        2.2%         172         578
sql                           1            44             33      42.9%           11           88
javascript              2            16              4       20.0%            2            22
—————-  —–  ———  ———  ———  ———  ———
Total                      74       4752       1139      19.3%       1016       6907

Platforms detected: PHP, SQL, Drupal
Tools detected: None

After

Examining 118 file(s)..

Ohloh Line Count Summary

Language          Files       Code    Comment  Comment %      Blank      Total
—————-  —–  ———  ———  ———  ———  ———
php                        64       3431       1922      35.9%       1010       6363
css                            9       2122           73         3.3%         185       2380
html                       64        802            18        2.2%         328       1148
sql                             1          46             33      41.8%            11          90
javascript               3           31               8      20.5%             4          43
—————-  —–  ———  ———  ———  ———  ———
Total                    141      6432       2054       24.2%       1538      10024

Platforms detected: PHP, SQL, Drupal
Tools detected: None

If you feel like helping the project out a bit, have a look at the usable milestone page to see if there’s anything for you.