Re: [Chategory-devl] Versioning: Chategory 2.0, 3.0

[Bob F <mon...@gm...>]

Templating system isn't giving me problems, it was archiving. But that's
mainly because of my backwards (literally) naming scheme. I confused myself
using a $back variable for going forward and ++ when I should -- and the
like. Simpler now then I originally thought it would be, wonderous what
looking at something afresh can do.

Mike, I think you'll be happy to here about our new templating system we
have planned. If you've ever used wordpress or textpattern or any number of
PHP apps that use these things, you'll be familiar. Basically, we're going
to have four template pages that users can modify to their own pleasing:
Header, Footer, Navigation, Posts. So admins will have almost total control
over the HTML used (except for things like UBB code which we'll generate on
our own, of course). So users can totally incorporate Chategory into their
website exactly as they please, even making the HTML fit in. They have
control of everything before, and everything after Chategory, they have
control over the markup for the navigation (This is chategory navigation -
Home, Users Online, User Control Panel, ect.) and how posts are presented.
So if you want the posts displayed in an unordered list, you can do it. If
you want them to be all one line, go ahead. If you want to have the post
text, followed by the poster's name, followed by the date then you can do
it.

This was Zach's idea I believe, and I think it offers a great degree of
customization. We will, however, ship with a default template so that
Chategory is ready to go out of the box. Also, it's a lot easier to edit
what's already there instead of starting from scratch so this should really
ease it for admins. I'm also thinking of having an update script, if
possible, which will make Chategory look the exact same on upgrading to sav=
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existing users from any hassles that might pop up. Just an idea for now, bu=
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I think it's doable.