[phpWebLog-devel] phpWebLog layouts

[Jason H. <ope...@ey...>]

I have been rewriting a lot of the Layout Manager and the way the
layouts work in general. Everything is moving along nicely, except for a
few issues where I'd like to ask your opinion first before going too far
with a bad idea. 
Currently, user-defined layouts/themes are stored in the database which
works well, but here's what I've been working on.
The theory: Layouts are created/designed in the layout manager, and
saved to an xml formatted file in backend/layouts to make them
interchangeable. The first issue with this, is the permissions needed to
save to a file from a web interface. An easy solution could be giving
the directory, backend/layouts permissions of 777. 
Basically, this is where I am at now.. I've got a sample (working)
layout xlm file called freaky.xlay, and it's being imported into
phpWebLog and the elements and values are parsed.
http://phpweblog.greenhell.com (dev/testing site) uses this, and the
layout can be found at
http://phpweblog.greenhell.com/backend/layouts/freaky.xlay. Before I
tackle the permissions thing, I wanted to get a general concensus of
what you thought of this, or the ideas that may come to mind.

Jason