README

   1 FFLuCI - Freifunk Lua Configuration Interface
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   3 This is a leightweight MVC-Webframework for small embedded devices.
   4 It uses the the Lua programming language and relies on Haserl.
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   6 It consists of several parts:
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   8 MVC Dispatcher
   9         Simple PATH_INFO based dispatching mechanism using Lua modules
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  12 Template engine
  13         Support for plain and compiled templates, on-demand compiling support
  14         Short markups:
  15                 <% Lua-Code %>
  16                 <%= Lua-Code with return value %>
  17                 <%:i18nkey default translation%>
  18                 <%+template-to-be-included%>
  19                 <%~uci.short.cut%>
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  21         Predefined variables for controller dir and media dir
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  24 Configuration Bind Interface (CBI)
  25         Generates and validates XHTML-Forms out of an UCI model description
  26         Makes it very easy to create webinterface pages that manipulate UCI files
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  29 i18n Translation support
  30         Simple multi-language per-module internationalization support
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  33 UCI wrapper support
  34         Lua UCI-Wrapper adapting the CLI of the uci binary
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  37 Menu Building support
  38         Supports menu building for modules and exported actions
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  41 HTTP-Abstraction and Formvalue validation support
  42         HTTP-Redirect, Statuscode, Content-Type abstraction
  43         Dynamic formvalue validation support including varaible type and
  44         value range validation
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  47 Known issues:
  48         There is a bug in older versions of busybox-httpd (as those in Kamikaze 7.09)
  49         that do not handle Status-headers correctly making valid HTTP-Redirects impossible.
  50         Using a newer version of Kamikaze should fix this.