Re: [Phpslash-devel] Back-End & phpSlash Progress

[Aric C. <gre...@pe...>]

How about doing something like allowing the user to only change some things,
like colors and fonts or adding style sheet styles... these could then just
be parsed into the templates.  For instance, instead of:

<font face="times">

you could have in the template:

<font face="{mainfont}">

or:

<span style="{mainstyle}">

That would give a fair amount of flexibility.  The choices would have to be
stored in the DB for that user...  phpBB allows something similar although I
don't think its per user but can be setup by the admin and the user can
choose a theme.  Would be a fair amount of work though.

> Hi Nathan,
>
> On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 15:24, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> > > Which has a really nice feature to allow you to modify templates
> > > directly from the web site..  It's a bit of a security concern on this
> > > app as you can insert php directly, but I thought it would be a neat
> > > tool to allow folks to edit some of the many templates that phpSlash
has
> > > (on the fly)..  If the templates directory were parallel to
public_html
> > > (rather than within it), I would think this would be a very nice way
to
> > > be able to modify the templates..
> > Which means the templates need to be living on the db server (against
what
> > we're trying to do) or the webserver process needs write access to a
> > drive, again not something I want (as a system administrator).
>
> It's the second option (of the web server having write access) that I
> was interested in..  I figured if the directory wasn't publicly visible
> & the script was limited to simply edit files from a directory (and at
> that point only write to *.tpl files), that it would be reasonably
> secure..
>
> > If you want to edit your tempaltes in a web browser windows, get a Java
> > ssh client applet :)
>
> Haven't played with java at all..  If its still a security concern to
> allow php write access to the template files, no worries..
>
> > -n... sorry I'm cranky, dealing with windows today, and we all know how
> > cranky that makes me :)  Plus the inlaws are coming.
>
> Best of luck!!  :)