Re: PROPOSAL: switch all html to templates

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Ilya Khamushkin wrote:
> Thomas Wood wrote:
>
> > Ilya Khamushkin wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, All
> > >
> > > After reading news about volounteers at a.g.o. website, I spend
> > > some time in reading a.g.o. website code.
> > > There are hard mix of html an php.
> > > Feature maintaining and upgrading of site will be simpler
> > > if html divide from php-code.
> > > There are many php templating engines like Smarty
> > > <http://smarty.php.net>, that we can use.
> > > I can take this task and will support a.g.o. in feature.
> > >
> > > Let me know what you think for this subject.
> >
> > I fully agree we need a template system, and I have written a very 
> > simple system to use. I did investigate several existing solutions, 
> > but I didn't feel any of them where appropriate for art.gnome.org. 
> > Many of them exceed the needs of art.gnome.org, and add a complexity 
> > that I think is unwarranted.
> >
> > However, I'm glad you are interested in helping with a.g.o. Once I 
> > have committed my template system to CVS, I will need some help 
> > stripping out all the existing HTML from the PHP and placing it into 
> > templates. So please help out if you can!
>
>
> Thank you for response, Thomas.
>
> So what I can practically begin to code?
> How can I submit a patches? via bugzilla or mail-list?
> Can you send me part of database and some files, I need
> to setup locally running copy of a.g.o.
> Thank you again! :-)

See this e-mail for setup information: 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/artweb-list/2005-August/msg00010.html
It would be nice to get this into a HACKING file (there is actually a 
bug open for it), but we would need some location for the SQL schema and 
image collection.

I've just added a very simple template system to art.gnome.org. I've 
hacked the main template in by using output buffering, but now need to 
get all the html out of the individual php and into templates.

I want to organise the templates something like this:

news.html
faq.html

backgrounds/listing.html
backgrounds/detail.html

themes/listing.gtml
themes/detail.html

I think we may need to add a sub-template function to the template to 
allow looping on items.

So first thing to do is to remove the html from php and replace the php 
variables with template variables.

I also now want to add some new pages, such as an about page, and a 
resources page with links to svg version of GNOME logo, and other tools. 
  Does anyone have any ideas how we could lay out a "Resources" page?

-Thomas

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