Re: [Phphtmllib-devel] howdy

[Tim M. <mo...@mr...>]

Walter A. Boring IV wrote:

> Hey folks,
>   I just wanted to say hi, and see if this list was working, since some
> folks have signed up.

It appears to be working just fine.  =)

> [...]
> 
>  I would eventually like to see more widget classes built that add more
> value to the libs other then just building xml/html/xhtml tags.  I have
> a bunch of widgets that I have built over time for various web
> applications.  I personally feel the long term value of the libs is in
> the widgets.  
>   Widgets are nothing more then classes that help build some html
> "widget", such as a table with a border, title, and rows of data.
> The purpose of these widgets is to make it much easier to build complex
> html structures.  So all the php programmer has to do is worry about 
> getting the data, and stuffing that data into the object.
> HTMLPageClass is a widget that helps the programmer build a fully
> qualified html page.  

This may be an ambitious desire...

Along the widget lines, I would like to see the idea of themes
implemented in PhpHtmlLib.  I really like the the idea of themes
that PHPnuke, PostNuke, et al. offer but I don't want or need their
idea of users, articles, surveys, ad naseum.  I just want flexible,
easy to use themes.

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