[cgiapp] looking for concepts: code reuse

[Alex]

Dear all!

Lately, I encounter quite a lot of applications where I have to pic one of
many records to do something with it. E.g. there is a user manager, that
displays a list of all users, and a button that leads to a function, such as
edit or delete user.
This list of users is is shown somewhere else, e.g. in the billing part of
the software, where I have to pick a user out of a list, for which I have to
record his entries.

The common part is, that there is a list displayed, that contains all users,
and that has some specific buttons. ATM, I recode the same thing over and
over again (fetching the list of users, filling a template), mainly because
there are different templates to be used.

Now, there is this prerequisite that I put all stuff of a part of an
application in its own namespace, according to a tutorial fom the CA
website. I like that idea, as I can reuse big parts of functionality in
other applications with only a small effort.

So isn't there a better way? A more general / generic way? Should such thing
be coded as a more generic plugin? Is there a good reason not to change it?
Or is it useful to recode the same functionality for each part of the
application to reduce complexity and allow a higher level of customization?

I'm not sure about this. For now, I just will keep on recoding another user
selection for another functionality.

If any questions, feel free to ask. It's possible, that the information
above is too spare.

Regards, Alex