[Phpwebsite-developers] Re: Phpwebsite-developers digest, Vol 1 #678 - 1 msg

[George B. <gbr...@lu...>]

That sounds like a very interesting approach.  But I don't quite understand,
Eloi, what you mean by asking whether Pagemaster 'fully supports page
templates now'. (I don't use Article Manager any more because users
protested the copyright message.)  The default Pagemaster page template
lumps everything together in a {CONTENT} tag, meaning it's up to Pagemaster
itself to lay out the page except for add-ons like date published etc.
Granted, the section templates (e.g., image_float_left.tpl) can lay out a
section pretty much any way {IMAGE} and {TEXT} can be arranged, but
ultimately Pagemaster just strings all those sections (each sitting in a
table) in a line down the page.  It's not clear to me how one would put that
in a two-column layout without modifying the PageMaster code.  Most of the
options I can think of for a series of section templates like the one you
suggest would make individual templates sensitive to the proper use of other
templates (e.g. one template starts a <div> and another finishes it).

George

On 8/8/04 11:38 PM, "php...@li..."
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> Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 16:28:28 -0400
> From: Eloi George <el...@re...>
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> I don't know why, but Sourceforge almost always delays my submissions to
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> 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-
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