>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Daupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dennis> I have two related questions. I'm writing a site that will
Dennis> offer the capability of registering for online
Dennis> stores/shops. Each shop will be configurable, in that the
Dennis> registrant will choose from a selection of functions, such as
Dennis> eCards, photo gallery, etc. I'd also like to offer a set of
Dennis> skins from which each shop keeper can choose a look and feel
Dennis> for his/her shop. My question: I have a site wrapper for my
Dennis> overall web; is there a way to override my site wrapper within
Dennis> each shop? To put this another way, my site will have "master"
Dennis> functions (eCards, gallery, so forth) which each shop will use
Dennis> instances of, but the shops will each need their own look.
Well, the brute force way is like this:
[% master = { this_wrapper => 'master_wrapper.tt' } %]
[%# site = { this_wrapper => 'site_wrapper.tt' %] %]
[% this_wrapper = site.this_wrapper || master.this_wrapper %]
[% WRAPPER $this_wrapper %]
some wrapped stuff
[% END %]
Or you can simply have your master wrapper be "pluggable"... let them
define their own sub-elements in a search path, so that when you
WRAPPER or INCLUDE, it first looks in the individual template
directory before searching to the master template directory.
Dennis> My related question is, I want to run a wiki that will have
Dennis> the capability of selecting a template from an option list to
Dennis> apply to each page. The overall site wrapper would apply
Dennis> unless an individual page template is selected. Is overriding
Dennis> the master site wrapper for each page a good way to think of
Dennis> this, or is there another, better, approach?
It's a matter of programming. Depends on what you're optimizing for.
You can do it procedureally (like above), objectively (nested VIEWs),
via search paths, or however you want to do it.
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