On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:44:45AM -0500, Puneet Kishor wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Karen J. Cravens wrote:
> >On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Puneet Kishor wrote:
> >
> >PK>What is/are a typical circumstance(s) where I would not already know
> >PK>what vars exist in a template and would want to use query to find
> >out?
> >
> >It's the split between template and programming thing. I've considered
>
> On Apr 17, 2004, at 11:18 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:10:35AM -0500, Puneet Kishor wrote:
> >
> >>What is/are a typical circumstance(s) where I would not already know
> >>what vars exist in a template and would want to use query to find out?
> >
> >The most obvious case is the one in which someone else is being given
> >the HTML design part of the job.
>
> Interesting. I have approached this always with the attitude that I
> have to separate programming from display as much as possible. I've
> just finished a relatively complicated app -- a single cgi script about
> 2000 lines long, and about 45 different templates. My approach has been
> to create the templates in such a way that they could exist as a
> standalone website even if there was no H-T involved. In other words,
> if a designer-type decided to load the entire templates folder with its
> stylesheets and javascripts and whatnot in a designer-type program
> (GoLive or Dreamweaver, etc.), a complete, well-formed website would
> manifest, of course, with tmpl_vars intact. It may look a bit kooky
> since tables won't be fleshed out, and a few unavoidable tmpl_ifs won't
> be logic-ed out, but nonetheless -- it would be a website with all its
> links and scripts and behaviors and whatnot.
That's exactly the approach I decided we should take for designing
our GUI. In fact, the final form of most of the templates was created
in Dreamweaver.
On a similar principle, I made the various CGI scripts for displaying
the templates load the template with the name exactly corresponding to
the URL it's invoked under. That sounds a little confusing to say, but
it just means that if you go to an URL like /admin/home/news.html, the
CGI will pick up that URL and open and render a template from the path
.../templates/home/news.html.
This approach has worked quite well for us.
-- Clifton
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