[dev] Checking Joomla templates

[dim corso]

No. People only need to write new templates. They only extends the class if they want to renders non standars zones in the UI.  Standars zones  will be  : top , left, rigth, bottom... for example
Of course we want you to endorse the idea, thats why we're having this conversation with you. You got reason about coding standar and the global vars. This is just an example and we hope to fix the issues working together with you. we are putting in global context only the data related with what block render in zones. Of course this data can be passes via params to the funcitions which renders. we just loking for simplify the php code needed in the templates.

we have an example in which we changes the left horde menu to the rigth and put our custom menu in the left. Let us make some fixes to send it to you.

regars Deny Lester

Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org> wrote: Quoting dim corso :

>  We'll have a abstract renderer which can render the default zones,  
> but this class may be extended in each app in order to render some  
> other custom zones.

So people need to write classes to modify the UI? Or can they just  
write new templates?

>  So. What and scrip of an app have to do before renders the interface?
>      the same they do actually. Load the variables needed by the  
> .inc files. this .inc files will contiue being usefull because this  
> is the way in wich an app defines the content of a zone in a layout.
>  So we can sustitute this part of the scripts :
>
>          require NAG_TEMPLATES . '/common-header.inc';
>          require NAG_TEMPLATES . '/menu.inc';
>          require NAG_TEMPLATES . '/tasklists/tasklists.inc';
>          require $registry->get('templates', 'horde') . '/common-footer.inc';
>
>  with something like this:
>
>      //the contents of the left block
>     $GLOBALS['content']['left'] = array('left','left1');
>
>      //renders the interface
>        Horde_Flex::Render('nag');
>
>  the framework may most have a folders in which the layout.htm files  
> most be placed in order to load them dinamically.
>
>  Well. Need more details? How do you see that?

If you want me to endorse the idea, then yes, I need more details. :)  
Again, if you want to do it, well go for it and we'll see where it  
goes. But from my perspective:

- you need to read the Horde coding standards  
(http://www.horde.org/horde/docs/?f=CODING_STANDARDS.html) to get the  
object design consistent with Horde.

- using globals is pretty hackish - needs to be a better way of  
defining whatever it is you're defining there

- I'd like to see a complete example, however small

-chuck

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