The TON Developers Blog contains articles, code, thoughts and Musings from the TON Platform Developers Team.The TON Platform is the software platform upon which all Total Outdoor Network websites and applications are built.
The TON Platform architecture is LAMP Based (Linux, Apache, MySql and PHP) and includes additional technologies developed by the Open Source Community.
The Overall architecture of the TON Platform is based on M-V-C Architecture (Model - View -> Controller) and implements a Controller -> Action -> Task based system for handling requests.
The Model is primarly driven by a MySql backend that exposes data as XML Prior to delivery to the View.
The TON Platform View architecture primarily utilizes XSL (eXtensible Stylesheets) to transform the XML Data into the final HTML Output.
In addition, many Ajax components are in use for front end delivery that rely on a subset of the M-V-C architecture for delivery.
Finally, the TON Platform provides a Developers API for external access to the TON Platform, it's content and it's technology and tools.
Articles
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Stateful Event Driven Caching with Cache_Lite, PHP and APC The problem with all caching systems is that they are based on timeout values. Although these can help tremendously to reduce load on a database server, this design does not have the ability
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The TON Categorization System The TON Platform contains various types of content including Articles, Pages, Forums, Photos, Videos, Maps, Fishing/Hunting Reports, Calendar Events and more. The system was designed from
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