[Slashcode-general] per-section templates?

[Barry C. <bc...@i1...>]

Hi....

I am working to get deeper into the details of completely changing the look 
and feel of a slash site. I think I still near the beginning.....

I have made a new template, called "mainSectionIndex", which is now 
included in "header" This works fine.

I would like to have a "xSectionIndex" template for each section, which 
would be included each time the section page is displayed.

My first thought was to modify each section's slashhead.inc, but that seems 
to be generated by slashd every hour.

It looks like one way to go would be to modify the header template further, 
so there was a kind of if then thing, looking roughly like this:

if section =a then include aSectionIndex
else section =b then include bSectionIndex
....
else include mainSectionIndex #default


Does that seem reasonable,or is there a better way?

If it is reasonable, then what would the code look like? I have not found a 
listing of what variables and hashes are available to the header template 
(OK, I didn't look that hard because I am not sure this is the best 
approach yet....),

Just as a quick test, I tried adding in the "header" template this line: 
"Section = [% section %] zzzzzz".  I did not get anything in the variable 
part, even though I stopped and started both slashd and apache to force the 
updates.

Also, it is not 100% clear to me how the variables end up in the template 
form the source code.

Has anyone done something similar they would like to share?


Thanks,


Barry