On Apr 17, 2004, at 1:37 PM, Clifton Royston wrote:
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.
Clifton,
That is really cool. Could you (here, or offline) share more about how you did this? In effect, the users are not going to index.cgi?do=somecrap, but they are going to /website/somecrap. So you can use path_info, but how are you getting the cgi to fire up?
I know this can be accomplished somewhat with the help of mod_rewrite, but that is not always possible. I am very interested in knowing how you are accomplishing this.
Thanks.
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