Cool, thanks. I see it now - very interesting.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Sunday, 31 March 2002 6:41 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Queries and display files
> 
> 
> 
> Kay Smoljak wrote:
> > Can you give me an example of where this approach is an advantage? 
> > Sounds interesting...
> 
> Well, the example I'm most familiar with is my community app... it's 
> been designed to support a level of "skinning" that allows 
> more than the 
> typical layout modifications. It can support completely different 
> interface structures... the user can choose to view the forum as a 
> UBB-style, linear board, in a Compuserve-style, multi-framed 
> and fully 
> threaded format, and so on. Whatever the developer can dream up.
> 
> Each skin exists as its own little pseudo-circuit, and relies on a 
> central set of dsp_ files to feed it data. The generic dsp_s process 
> queries, check permissions, and so on... but leave the actual 
> display of 
> data to the individual skin's tmp_ files.
> 
> All of which has two primary advantages:
> 
> (1) Those dsp_s get re-used over and over across multiple skins.
> (2) I can restrict the CFML in tmp_ files to CFOUTPUT and 
> CFLOOP... not 
> so much as a CFSET anywhere in sight. That leaves the templates much 
> easier for non-programming types to modify.
> 
> --
> Roger
> 
> 

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