Re: [phpesp-dev] Themes & Templates

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Matthew Gregg wrote:

> Are we talking about themeing phpESP or surveys?
>
> Well I for one am against expending much energy
> themeing phpESP itself.  One easy to use, well design
> interface is all that is needs. However, time should be
> invested in allowing Surveys themselves to be "themed"

Weee! Has anyone looked closely at the phpESP.sql file when
importing it? There is a VARCHAR(64) field called "theme"
in the "survey" table. :-)

I've been thinking that eventually this was going to come
up (I think it already has, but I've been lazy). Now that
we have the "auto-template" for surveys, themeable surveys
is even more of an issue. Before it was expected that the
page in which the survey was embedded would be responsible
for changing the look of the survey (via css and placement
of the PHP tag). Now, though, it would be really nice if
the surveys were themable too. The first step for themable
surveys is making the output of survey render XHTML
compliant and give the tags attributes to allow CSS hooks.

Before we start all this I am going to kick out a final
release of the 1.x line, and branch for 2.x line.

-James