Re: [phpesp-dev] Themes & Templates

[Kon A. <ang...@ip...>]

Speaking from a design point of view I get a lot of requests from companies 
to integrate third party software so that it fits in with their corporate 
look and feel. I have yet to come across anyone who has asked for themes as 
such. I would like to see the third design implemented as the default theme 
with the ability to easily alter the color scheme, font size etc....
I would rather devote most of my time in creating themes/styles for the 
actual surveys.

As for my suggestion for the use of fastTemplate, all that is required is the 
inclusion of a single class file into the includes dir as indicated in your 
php.ini file. The variant that I've used from time to time is called 
class.rfastTemplate and from memory, does not have any licence attached to it.


Kon


On Sat, 4 May 2002 00:48, 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"
>
> On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:22:53AM -0400, James E. Flemer wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >   Now that Kon has graciously created three new templates
> > for phpESP, the time has come to think about making phpESP
> > themeable. Everyone using web stuff seems to want Themes
> > now. I feel stability and features are more important than
> > Themes, but I think phpESP is at a point where it is
> > logical to consider themeability.
> >
> >   First let me summarize the results of the GUI survey[1].
> > The majority (60%) was for the third design (the one that
> > sort of looks like a TV). I prefer that design as well. I
> > think that this should become the default Theme. A few
> > people suggested that the greens be replaced with blues in
> > this theme. I am sure that would be a trivial task, and of
> > course we can use them both as Themes.
> >
> > [1] http://phpesp.sf.net/demo/survey.php?name=design&results=1
> >
> >   Now, having said that -- we need to discuss
> > implementation. I personally have not written, nor even
> > read, any PHP code that supports themes. I believe that it
> > is in our best interest to use some existing template/theme
> > framework for PHP rather than writing one. Kon suggested
> > FastTemplate[2], and after a quick search with Google, I
> > found Smarty Template Engine[3].
> >
> > [2] http://www.thewebmasters.net/php/FastTemplate.phtml
> > [3] http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/Smarty/
> >
> >   I have not looked at the licenses on these packages, but
> > they must be compatible with the BSD license to be used
> > with phpESP. I think that with Smarty we can use Smarty for
> > development, and not distribute any Smarty code (since it
> > generates PHP code). I think that this is the best option,
> > especially because of its speed. I am open to suggestions
> > though, since I have not used templates/themes in PHP
> > before.
> >
> > Please comment if you have any opinion or experience on the
> > subject.
> >
> > -James
> >
> >
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