Re: [phpWebLog-devel] phpWebLog layouts

[Stephen L. <lo...@da...>]

I like the idea of being able use different users layout files. This would
be possible with the XML thing right? Someone could send me a layout file
that I could use on my site?

-
Stephen Lawrence Jr.
lo...@da...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Hines" <ope...@ey...>
To: <php...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 1:09 PM
Subject: [phpWebLog-devel] phpWebLog layouts


> 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
>
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