Re: PROPOSAL: switch all html to templates

[Ilya Khamushkin <ilya space rootshell ru>]

Thomas Wood wrote:
> 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
>
> p.s. Make sure you hit reply to all to make sure your reply comes to the 
> list. Sorry about this, but it's standard practice on most mailing lists 
>  so changing it is just as likely to confuse people as leaving it as it 
> is :-)

ok! thank you!

My 2 cents about templating ;-)

I think we need some more flexible and powerful template engine
that you develop yourself. IMHO: Smarty - one of the best and used.
http://smarty.php.net/whyuse.php
http://smarty.php.net/rightforme.php

There are many features like loops, expressions, etc.
http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/

I don't offer to use cms or other packaged web software,
but all that we need is separate code from layout and design.
And I think we should not develop things that already done.
We are really open source? :-) so let use it!

About "Resource" page...
May it can be just a wiki page?
Please look to another Gnome-oriented website:
http://tango-project.org/
It completely powered by MediaWiki.

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WBR, ilya