Photo Backbone tut

by Sander Houttekier

HTML

<script src="https://raw.github.com/documentcloud/underscore/master/underscore.js"></script>
<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/backbone.js/0.5.3/backbone-min.js"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.templates/beta1/jquery.tmpl.min.js"></script>
<script id="results-template" type="text/template">
    <h2><%= title %></h2>
</script>

<div id="results"></div>

JavaScript

Photo = Backbone.Model.extend({
    
    defaults: {
        src: 'placeholder.jpg',
        title: 'an image placeholder',
        coordinates: [0,0],
        tags:  ['untagged'],
        location: 'home'
    },
    
    initialize: function(){
        this.bind('foo', this.msgTitlechanged )
            .bind('bar', this.othermsgChanged);       
    },
    
    othermsgChanged: function(title){
        console.log("bar fired: " + title);
    },
    
    msgTitlechanged: function(title){
        console.log("title was changed to " + this.get("title"));
    },
    
    setTitle: function(title){
        this.set({title: title});
    }    
});


var PhotoSearch = Backbone.View.extend({
    
    el: $('#results'),
    
    initialize: function(){
        var myPhoto = new Photo();
        console.log('view initialized');
        console.log(JSON.stringify(myPhoto));
        this.render();
    },
    
    render: function(event){
        var compiled_template = _.template( $("#results-template").html() );
        this.el.html(compiled_template(myPhoto.toJSON()));
        return this;
    }
});

PhotoCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
    model: Photo
});


/*We can then create our own instance of a photo as follows:*/
var myPhoto = new Photo();
var search = new PhotoSearch(myPhoto);