[AOLSERVER] AOLserver templating options
Hey all, What's the current state of templating systems in AOLserver? I've found two: 1) ATS: Is it well-maintained, and can it be easily used outside of an OpenACS installation? 2) http://junom.com/document/twt/view/www/ - it seems to be actively maintained given the fact that there are files in that directory created last month, but is it easy to install? And has it been tested in a production environment? 3) Are there any others? Thanks, Hossein -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver templating options
Hossein Sharifi wrote: Hey all, What's the current state of templating systems in AOLserver? I've found two: 1) ATS: Is it well-maintained, and can it be easily used outside of an OpenACS installation? 2) http://junom.com/document/twt/view/www/ - it seems to be actively maintained given the fact that there are files in that directory created last month, but is it easy to install? And has it been tested in a production environment? 3) Are there any others? ADP Master Pages is worth checking out: http://aolserver.am.net/code/modules/masterpages.adpx -J -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver templating options
Hossein Sharifi wrote: Hey all, What's the current state of templating systems in AOLserver? I've found two: 1) ATS: Is it well-maintained, and can it be easily used outside of an OpenACS installation? It was originally developed to be used with a standalone CMS built by ars digita people in the bay area, and later adapted to work with aD's ACS (which evolved into OpenACS). Breaking it out to run standalone again shouldn't be that difficult. There are hook into our localization (message catalog) stuff but that could be ignored/ripped out. The ATS supports master templates that appear to be much like the ADP Master Pages mentioned by Jeff (so i guess the similar MS technology referenced by that site), and has done so since oh 1998, 1999. Actually it's a hierarchy of master templates with the top of the hierarchy being the master for the entire site. Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver templating options
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Hossein Sharifi shar...@rateyourmusic.com wrote: 2) http://junom.com/document/twt/view/www/ - it seems to be actively maintained given the fact that there are files in that directory created last month, but is it easy to install? And has it been tested in a production environment? I'm the maintainer. The current home for this is the tnt project: http://www.junom.com/gitweb/gitweb.perl?p=tnt.git It is still the view package, but requires, at least, the tnt package for logging. If you need help installing, please take advantage and ask here or via direct email. Any helpful hits will be shared as better documentation. The templating system is called tic-tac-toe, somewhat shorter than A templating toolkit for tcl. Although the files you saw have been updated recently, the actual code hasn't changed. It is relatively stable and the extension mechanism is well defined, so only actual bugs demand attention. But the templating system is somewhat conservative. You have to add resources in order to access anything outside of a particular template (the setup tcl file adds the resources). The whole point was a safe system where templates of unknown intent could safely be used. So, by default, template cannot execute unsafe commands, but resources can execute arbitrary code. The Tic-Tac-Toe example ( http://junom.com/document/twt/view/www/tic-tac-toe.tcl ) is non-trivial and demonstrates many of the features. The tnt toolkit has hundreds of examples of template files and a few examples of how to organize a website wide templating system. The readme file explains the language basics: http://junom.com/document/twt/view/www/README The template compiler is written in flex/bison so it it fast, but it also validates syntax. When an error occurs, you get a temporary file which ends close to the error. It is usually easy to find and fix syntax errors. The compiled template is just tcl code, once compiled, the compiled version remains valid until the original template file gets a newer timestamp. (You can use touch to force a recompile). 3) Are there any others? Good question. tom jackson -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.aol.com with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
