Hi *Massimo,* An awesome feature. I can see it can be very useful for people like me to create good looking UI's.
Can this be a production feature ever? Is it Ok (and here I am liking to their resource files) to take the design from different site without their permission? rAm i Think, i Wait, i Fast -- Siddhartha http://sodidi.ramjeeganti.com On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:11 PM, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's say you have a web2py application "myapp" and you want it to > look like a existing web site, for example "http://www.reddit.com";, > here is what you do from the web2py/ folder: > > ./scripts/clone.py -m '.tabmenu' -c '.content' -u 'http:// > www.reddit.com' -o applications/myapp/views/layout.html > > Done! > > In the script above: > -m '.tabmenu' is the class of the UL menu (. for class and # for id, > jQuery notation) > -c '.content' is the class of DIV that contains the main page > content. > -u is the url of the page you want to clone and > -o is the file you want to generate (a web2py layout). > > You will need to look at the page first (possibly with firebug) to > figure out the -m and -c values for the specific page you intend to > clone. > > The script converts the page into a web2py layout by inserting web2py > tags in the proper places. It does not download linked static files > but fixes links so that they do not break. > > It does not work on non-utf8 pages. > > I am not sure this is going to stay but I could use feedback on > whether this is useful or not. If somebody could help fix it for non > utf8 pages it would be great. > > > The script is in trunk now. If you do not use trunk, just get this > file > > http://web2py.googlecode.com/hg/scripts/clone.py > > and store it in web2py/scripts. > > > DISCLAIMER: Under certain conditions it is illegal to make a page look > too similar to an existing page because it may be considered phishing. > The code provided can help you for a quick demo but it should not be > used to generate production web sites unless the layout of the site > you are cloning explicitly allows it. > > Massimo >
