Re: PHP, Smarty, and Text

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 18:18 -1000, Daniel Kolbo wrote: > > Phpster wrote: > > What about stripping out all the 'nuances' and just reducing it to > > just the text where you then control the display and using your > > templates and css? > > > > Bastien > > > > Sent from my iPod > > > > On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Daniel Kolbo <kolb0057@umn.edu> wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I've been using PHP and Smarty for several years now and I am happy > >> with this "division" of data from presentation. With this philosophy > >> in mind, i am a bit perplexed as to how to handle the text on my > >> sites. That is, the text is data, so i am motivated to store the > >> text in a database, files, or the like, but then text is loaded with > >> little markup nuances (random italics/weight/colors, etc...) that > >> make template design rather ugly. This motivates me to put markup > >> (maybe even my own brand of markup) around the text, and to store > >> this markup-text combination in a database. But I don't like this > >> either, because a lot of the people writing the content/text know > >> word/writer not markup. So i am motivated to have them save their > >> text as .html, and I parse this file and modify accordingly. > >> However, i don't like this either as not all word/writer styles are > >> 1-to-1 with CSS. Without any options I am back to thinking "hard > >> code" the text with markup in included templates, but it hurts just > >> thinking of updating/modifying. > >> > >> I have looked (briefly) at Web Content Management Systems, but this > >> seems like overkill really, maybe i'm ignorant. > >> > >> What would the community suggest? The text can take on many forms, > >> introduction text, about text, product information, articles, blurbs, > >> (some changes daily, some doesn't) etc...where does all this text > >> live in 'properly' designed site. > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> dK > >> > Hello Bastien, > The difficulty with implementing your suggestions is that say in a > paragraph of text that has random bold or italics (etc...) (as > determined by the one drafting the text), how would i recover these > bold/italics if i remove them? Strip all tags except bold and italics. Then replace <b> with <strong> and <i> with <em> since the former tags are deprecated. If semantic meaning is not intended by <b> and <i> then replace with <span class="bold"> and <span class="italic"> and create those CSS styles. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP