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   1 FFLuCI - Freifunk Lua Configuration Interface
   2
   3 This is a leightweight MVC-Webframework for small embedded devices.
   4 It uses the the Lua programming language and relies on Haserl.
   5
   6 It consists of several parts:
   7
   8 MVC Dispatcher
   9         Simple PATH_INFO based dispatching mechanism using Lua modules
  10
  11         > See src/ffluci/dispatcher.lua for a detailed description
  12         > See src/ffluci/controller for example controllers
  13
  14
  15 Template engine
  16         Support for plain and compiled templates, on-demand compiling support
  17         Short markups:
  18                 <% Lua-Code %>
  19                 <%= Lua-Code with return value %>
  20                 <%:i18nkey default translation%>
  21                 <%+template-to-be-included%>
  22                 <%~uci.short.cut%>
  23
  24         Predefined variables for controller dir and media dir
  25
  26         > See src/ffluci/template.lua for details
  27         > See src/view/ for examples
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  29
  30 Configuration Bind Interface (CBI)
  31         Generates and validates XHTML-Forms out of an UCI model description
  32         Makes it very easy to create webinterface pages that manipulate UCI files
  33
  34         > See src/ffluci/cbi.lua
  35
  36
  37 i18n Translation support
  38         Simple multi-language per-module internationalization support
  39
  40         > See src/ffluci/i18n.lua for details
  41         > See src/i18n/ for examples
  42
  43
  44 UCI wrapper support
  45         Lua UCI-Wrapper adapting the CLI of the uci binary
  46
  47         > See src/model/uci.lua for details
  48
  49
  50 Menu Building support
  51         Supports menu building for modules and exported actions
  52
  53         > See src/ffluci/menu.lua for details
  54         > See src/ffluci/view/menu.htm, src/ffluci/controller for examples
  55
  56
  57 HTTP-Abstraction and Formvalue validation support
  58         HTTP-Redirect, Statuscode, Content-Type abstraction
  59         Dynamic formvalue validation support including varaible type and
  60         value range validation
  61
  62         > See src/ffluci/http.lua for details
  63         > See src/ffluci/controller/public/example-action.lua for examples
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  65
  66 Known issues:
  67         There is a bug in older versions of busybox-httpd (as those in Kamikaze 7.09)
  68         that do not handle Status-headers correctly making valid HTTP-Redirects impossible.
  69         Using a newer version of Kamikaze should fix this.