Re: My template idea...
[email protected] (Anne Holz)
| Newsgroups | php.template |
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| Organization | ispi |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Tobias Ratschiller wrote: > > Yes, I wondered about that, too. It seems to be a logically separate topic, > > so I'm not sure it should be covered by the template API. I'd love to have a > > standard config-file API in PHP, though. > > That's what I'm working on now. :) Email me privately for a little more > discussion. > > > Is it really necessary to have per-template configuration variables? I've > > never needed that so far (I'm not saying that it might not be an advantage > > in certain applications - just how often is it really used?). > > I think our designer, who's on this list, can answer that best. Anne? > > -Andrei > > What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, > is not the writing, it's deciding what to write. > -- Neal Stephenson Config files have so far been the designer's salvation while waiting for the day to come when style sheets are safe to use without having to compensate for earlier browsers that don't support them. In that sense, per-template configuration variables come in handy for allowing the flexibility to change font attributes,table background colors, image paths, and such within different templates. By allowing that, the same exact html code can present the illusion of a different interface simply by changing values in the config file. It's like creating 10 effortless designs out of one. -- Anne Holz | [email protected] art director | ispi | voice: +1.402.441.3295 http://www.ispi.net | fax: +1.402.483.5418