Re: Re: H::T future

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Roger Burton West wrote:

RBW>The only alternative I can see is to set up a database of some sort
RBW>which would contain the title for each page. This seems silly.

That's pretty much what I've been doing (the part I snipped, that is), but
now that I'm essentially turning the whole site into a Wiki, technically I
*am* going to have an auto-generated title.  Not in the database, though;
it'll more likely be the site + web + Wiki Word (a la "Phoenyx : Members :
Karen Cravens").  Which sort of eliminates the problem, for me, I guess,
since it'll make the title code-generated.  But right now, I'm doing it
something like Cees described... each (content) page looks something like
this:

(include for the header fragment)
Title Of The Page
(include for another header fragment, up to the BODY tag)
Menu Bar Or An Include For A Standard One
(include for a formatting fragment)
Main Content
(include more formatting)
Sidebar Or An Include For A Standard One
(include for the ending formatting)

I suppose some sort of interleaving function would be kind of neat, but I
can't think of any elegant way to do it.  The Wiki version flips that all
around, and just has a main template with a TMPL_VAR for the title, menu
bar, content, and sidebar.  I may end up using sub-templates to generate
some of that (a sort of simulated variable include), but more likely it'll
be generic Wiki text files (TWiki, specifically).  Though, come to think
of it, I don't think H::T's variables/includes would be any harder to use
than TWiki's, so I might end up with a hybrid.

-- 
Karen J. Cravens  silver@xxxxxxxxxxx



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