I'm really glad you cleared that up Owen. I don't know anything about
how Drupal themes work, but the advantages you describe will be
desired (by me - an I'm sure many others). For example, I want to
import my Twitter content into my (still hypothetical) Habari blog and
have them displayed in the timeline (or other multiple 'post' pages)
but styled differently.
There are ways to do that now, obviously, but I'm sure we can come up
with more elegant solutions.
Simon
On Oct 16, 9:24 pm, Owen Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Arthus Erea wrote:
> > I think a whole theme engine is the best approach for compatability,
> > rather than a one-time translator.
>
> I think there is some misunderstanding of what I meant by this:
>
>
>
> >>> * Is there a way to provide both WordPress and Drupal-style theme
> >>> systems?
>
> What I meant is that these two systems approach themes in different ways.
>
> WordPress (and currently Habari) produces a full-page template for each
> request condition. So if your request is for a single post, it loads up
> single.php and uses that to display the whole page. Header and footer
> must be included from each template called this way.
>
> Drupal produces a single page template, and then fills its content area
> based on the request. So in Drupal, you have a page.tpl.php which is
> the "wrapper", and inside it there is a $content variable that is
> output. The value of $content is assigned based on the request.
> Different nodes (posts in Drupalese) are rendered using the node.tpl.php
> template and then assigned into $content for display. If a
> node-{type}.tpl.php template is supplied for a given content type, that
> template is used instead of the default.
>
> Both systems have distinct advantages. The WordPress style is handy
> when you want the whole page look to change based on the type of
> request. This is harder to do in Drupal (you can, it just requires code
> an knowhow that your average WP themer wouldn't fathom). But the Drupal
> method is nice when you want to style different kinds of posts
> differently in a multiple-item listing, something that the WP method
> doesn't support without explicit switches inline in the template files.
>
> What would be ideal, in my mind, is to concoct a way to handle either of
> these styles of theme building so that either WordPress or Drupal
> themers could fall into Habari themes more naturally with what they
> expect. Using the best of both could lead to a remarkably flexible system.
>
> To be clear, the question above has nothing to do with translating
> WordPress and Drupal themes via some theme engine into something Habari
> can use.
>
> Owen
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