RE: [Phpwebsite-developers] Themes

[Bob M. <web...@is...>]

Hello everyone... I am going to make a turn on this project and work on
integrating phpWebSite's user base with vBulletin's, I have alot of peopl=
e
interested in this and want to see it happen. I would like to know what t=
he
plans are for the database tables and the reason I ask is I believe it wa=
s
Brian who wanted to see a different naming structure. Let me know your
thoughts and ideas.
Thx. Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: php...@li...
[mailto:php...@li...]On Behalf Of
Karsten Dambekalns
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 12:50 PM
To: php...@li...
Subject: Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Themes


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 pai=
n
> > in the butt. I have a couple of themes I am trying to create, and I a=
m
> > 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 change=
d,
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 sin=
ce
> 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 wh=
at
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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