Re: Seperating Content from code, and making it transparent

[michaeld senet com au]

Quoting Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>:
> <quote who="michaeld senet com au">
> It was like, 3am Sydney time. I was up, where were you? ;)

Scary thing is it's now 9am and you're _still_ up :)
 
> > I can't look at these right now - but prepend/append is php-wide if I'm not
> 
> > mistaken (not directory based like an apache directive).  No-one else is
> php'ing 
> > on widget.gnome.org (or is it canvas - I forget :) are they?  Or else
> they'll 
> > get our prepends/appends.
> 
> You can do prepends/appends in .htaccess files, <directory> sections and
> <virtual> sections.

Ah.  I was thinking of php.ini append/prepend, not apache.  Cool bananas.  
 
> > To get around the special pages/forms issue you _could_ just have a <?
> > gnomewebStart(); ?> and <? gnomewebEnd(); ?> instead of prepend/append
> and
> > give ourselves some flexibility.  I've mainly used prepend for variable
> > decls previously.
> 
> Yeah, we want to avoid this so that content authors need only care about
> the
> files they're editing - everything outside their content should be seamless
> / transparent.

I agree on principle, but in reality two function calls, one at start and one at 
end isn't a big deal and hard to maintain.  But if we can get away with not 
doing it, I agree with you, let's make it seemless for content providers.

So the question remains.  Who's hacking up something for the main w.g.o site?  
When will you have something to share?  What's our timeline for deciding upon 
some basic infrustructure?  I can _start_ something but I'd rather spend my time 
critiquing/extending something that is close to the ball park.  Have we decided 
upon on a branch to use for CVS?  Shall we setup another port on www.gnome.org 
to test/present the CVS branch with?

Sorry - just been waiting for momentum to build and now that it has I want to 
see stuff happenning.

Michael...
-- 
Michael Davies                "Do what you think is interesting, do
michaeld senet com au          something that you think is fun and
mirky on irc                   worthwhile, because otherwise you won't
                               do it well anyway." -- Brian Kernighan


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