Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] More phpWS and OOP

[Eloi G. <el...@re...>]

I don't know why, but Sourceforge almost always delays my submissions to 
this list...

I understand your goal a lot more now, but I think it can be achieved 
with existing modules.  Article Manager (and PageMaster if it fully 
supports page templates now) is designed for just that purpose.  A 
specific newsletter layout is defined as the overall page template 
design plus any particular combination of section templates.  If you add 
in section templates that utilize "div"s with "float:left/right" to 
define columns, then you can end up with any layout you choose! 

Once a particular layout is designed, then all the designers have to 
know is that Layout#1 consists of Page Template "Layout_1" with sections 
in the order of "Right_Column_Top", any number of  
"Right_Column_Middle", "Right_Column_Bottom", "Headline", and any number 
of  "Body".

Or if you want to make it even easier, you could submit an RFE (or a 
patch ;)) to allow either module to clone an new article/page off of an 
existing blank one.

On the other hand, if you wanted to make the newsletter module create 
the articles itself, the technique is illustrated in the importation 
scripts.

Personally, I think our collective coding time would be better spent on 
quite a few other core class ideas than a universal section class.  
There are only a very few possible uses for the page/section paradigm, 
and I'm constantly looking for an easy-to-use, non-javascript-intensive 
way to get away from it and still retain the layout flexibility.

-Eloi-