Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Themes

[Jason C. <cam...@xp...>]

> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:03:41PM -0500, Jason Campbell wrote:
> 
>> > I have read everything I could find about themes, and while phpWS
>> > themes are handled MUUUUUUCH better than phpNuke they are still a
>> > pain in the butt. I have a couple of themes I am trying to create,
>> > and I am more than willing to share with the community, but I am not
>> > getting a clear picture of what is going on in the themes folders.
> 
> Well, themes aren't handled the most effective way. Until this has
> changed, you have to be patient. Easy, eh ?!? :-)
> 
>> I've been looking at the theme structure myself while making the block
>>  modification and I think some of the functions in theme.php need to 
>> possibly be moved to their own file, say functions.php or something
>> since  it seems alot of those functions are the same for each theme,
>> or am I wrong  about that?  Once the blocks get moved into a database
>> (which I'm doing  now), I think it'll make life alot easier for
>> themes.
> 
> Could you email me an outline fo the new structure? I am working on the
> developer docs, and documenting the theme structure (mostly to analyze
> what can be done better...) is one of the things I want to do next.
> 
> You are basically right with your assumption about the functions in the
> individual theme files. Good you haven't looked at layout.php :o)
> 
> Regards,
> Karsten
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I'd really like to revise some of the theme code in some way.  All I've 
done so far is tweaked a few of the functions to support PHP code in them 
and that could just be a new function altogether too.  I know that moving 
the theme.php functions to a new file would be alot of code changes but I 
think it would be best in the long run with those functions out of there.  
I still have to look at it more for sure before I'd even begin to change 
anything with it.  I'm just concentrating on getting the new block code 
completed right now and then I might look at the themes.  I'm not really 
sure if anyone in the dev team is already looking at the theme code or not 
but I'd be up to working on that next if need be.

I'll work on the block code some more this weekend and should have 
something for you on Monday to include in the documentation.  Email me at 
cam...@xp... and let me know exactly what you need for the 
documentation.  I am adding a new table "CBlocks" and might get rid of the 
lblocks and rblocks tables, no ones said not to do that yet, I'm waiting to 
see if anyone objects to it :)  If the lblocks/rblocks are removed then I 
might rename that table to just be "blocks".

Jason D. Campbell
Xplozive Media Technologies