Webmin Framework

[Nick J. <ni...@na...>]

Hello everyone,

 I have been looking at the webmin code for several days trying to grok
 it. There is no documentation on it that I can find, the comments in the
 code are sparse (to say the least), and even the variable and function
 names are not at all "self-documenting".

 In a short amount of time I need to change, significantly, some core
 things in webmin. Even so much as changing the way the HTML is printed
 is a task that requires extensive code manipulation, and all of the HTML
 is embedded in the code, rather thoroughly, and there are several function
 calls to other pieces of code, from other files,that make up certain
 parts of the HTML. None of this is documented and I can't figure out
 what these functions are doing, why they are needed etc.

 Has anyone else attempted something like this and ran into these problems?
 It seems like it is extremely difficult to reuse any code. Even within
 themes entire cgi's have to be rewritten to behave differently and print
 HTML out differently. 

 Are there any plans for an HTML Templating system? More flexible framework?
 Is there any technical Documentation? Anyone have any words of wisdom?
 
 Any comments apprectiated.

-- 
  Nick Jennings