Understanding Sync Layers in YUI

A Sync Layer is an interface where the widget, e.g. {javascript}DataTable{/javascript}, is populated, updated from, and updates a data store. In our case, the data store is a RESTful interface using JSON. To implement YUI Sync Layers, we use a {javascript}ModelList{/javascript} composed of Models. To understand Models, we go back to the basics and look

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Foundations for Web Development

Plan Use RESTful API with JSON encoding implemented in PHP on the server. Plan on Model-View-Controller. Service-side Framework Zend – enormous, complex, rich, much work done with {bash}zf{/bash} script and ini files.