> From: Rhesa Rozendaal > > Thirdly: Links belong in my templates, not in my app, so I > have no business knowing how to generate them. >
But in my application, the links belong in my apps, and the designers don't know how to generate them. For example - in my full text searches, the designers simply put <tmpl_var prev> <tmpl_var next> at the bottom of the paginated results. They don't need to know about offsets, results per page, keywords etc. Likwise, all menu items, links etc are generated automatically. If a file is available for download, <tmpl_var file> suffices. Now you can argue that this means the app knows too much about the links, but in my case, the burden of maintaining these links is removed from the designers (who are not technical) and this allows them to rapidly knock up new templates and sites without gettng bamboozled by details that they don't care about... Personally, I'd like everything to be self-contained in the application layer. mod_rewrite is a pain, because I don't always have access to another administrator's Apache conf. And if the URL format needs updating with extra parameters etc, I don't need to hunt around every Apache conf file on the sites that have the app installed - I just want to supply the latest version of the app. Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
