phpwebsite-developers

[Phpwebsite-developers] Themes

[Henley, A. <He...@am...>]

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.

In one theme, I am trying to change the table structure while leaving the
look
the same (top area, 3 columns, footer) but it seems that a table is started
in
header.php that ends...somewhere. It would be real helpful for designers
such
as myself if there were some type of "theme guide" to explain what is where
and
why. For instance, at first glance I was very enthused by v076 because it
seemed 
that with references to the functions in themes.php I could create my own
header.php
from scratch. Arrgh!!! Complete disaster.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Phpwebsite-developers] Adding image to calendar events fails

[zealot <ze...@sn...>]

I didn't find any info about this subject in the bug or install forums so
let me ask all you list veterans. With the latest version of phpWS,
uploading images for calendar events appears to be successful with HTML
output stating that the iamge was placed in /var/tmp//xyz. However, trying
to attach that image to some event causes final HTML output to display a
broken iamge link and the source shows the system's global path rather than
the local path to the image. Why does this happen and what's a work around?

Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Themes

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

> 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.
> 
> In one theme, I am trying to change the table structure while leaving
> the look
> the same (top area, 3 columns, footer) but it seems that a table is
> started in
> header.php that ends...somewhere. It would be real helpful for
> designers such
> as myself if there were some type of "theme guide" to explain what is
> where and
> why. For instance, at first glance I was very enthused by v076 because
> it seemed 
> that with references to the functions in themes.php I could create my
> own header.php
> from scratch. Arrgh!!! Complete disaster.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
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> Phpwebsite-developers mailing list
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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.

Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Themes

[Karsten D. <k.d...@tu...>]

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=20
> modification and I think some of the functions in theme.php need to=20
> possibly be moved to their own file, say functions.php or something since=
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> it seems alot of those functions are the same for each theme, or am I wro=
ng=20
> about that?  Once the blocks get moved into a database (which I'm doing=
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> 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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Because we use emacs, son. They use vi.
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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
> -- 
> Why do we have to hide from the police, daddy?
> Because we use emacs, son. They use vi.
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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

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
--
Why do we have to hide from the police, daddy?
Because we use emacs, son. They use vi.
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