I am (started in January this year) creating a CMS with CFML. This CMS is created with the seperation of business logic and presentation layers in mind. Currently I use templates like homepage.cfm, subpage.cfm to render the content into a presentation. What is displayed, is defined in the template with short calls to methods retrieving the content etc.
But ... I want to introduce a template builder. In the backend the users selects a starting template and is able to fill it with containers, building blocks like "article,poll,opt-in,navigation". This means templates will become dynamic.
I have two options:
1)Generate cfml code on the fly, and save the result as a template.
2)Use a custom markup language, and use a template parser to parse all the tags with corresponding content.
Option 1 is more work, not because of the methods which replace the markup language (in option 1 it is pre-generated, in option 2 it is generated on demand), but because I need to keep a reference of the editable regions, where, how, business rules, etc.
So I want to have a sort of dreamweaver template with my custom code:
<html xmlns="smml">
<style type="text/css">
@media all{
smml:/container{
border:1px solid red;
}
smml:/article{
font-family:Arial;
font-size:11px;
}
}
</style>
<body>
<smml:container>
<smml:log type="UsabilityAnalysis" event="all">
<smml:article action="" frompage="1234" />
</smml:log>
</smml:container>
</body>
</html>
Then this would be parsed by the template parser. I want it stack based because this gives me the ability to
1: validate correct nesting
2: more performance
3: enables flow options
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