Usage question

On 3/6/06, Michael Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
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> Mark A. Fuller wrote:
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> > If you want to give the designer the actual templates (but not require
> her to install the entire application), you could write a little script that
> would load each template, set variables and ->output() it to a file.
> Something like a script to run through some test cases (generate the page
> with the user logged in, not logged in, with an error message, with a
> success message, with the "you have mail" indicator set, etc.). This way the
> designer could change the template and regenerate some HTML (without
> actually using the entire application).
>
> One idea that did cross my mind is to create a small web application that
> simply
> fills in some default values to the templates. It should also allow any
> parameters to be overridden by the query string. Then if the designer is
> capable
> he/she could just play with the url to see what different states look
> like.
> They could also use something like Firefox + Tamper Data to even make it
> easier.
>
> Might be overkill but if you did it right it could be reuseable for
> different
> projects.


Thank you for your  suggestion!  For now, I will give the designer a couple
of frozen sets of parameters (stored by 'Storable') and a little application
to fill the templates.

he problem is that many parameters are LOOPs, so it will be difficult to set
them by the query string.

Matías


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