Re: yet another template

On Thursday 08 November 2001 10:01 am, Bertrand Mansion wrote: > Le jeudi 8 novembre 2001, à 03:35 , jan@kneschke.de a écrit : > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:06:39PM +0100, Jean-Michel POURE wrote: > >> At 12:20 08/11/01 +0000, you wrote: > >>> I see PEAR as a library of classes/functions(?) to allow you to build > >>> applications more > >> > >> Php needs an object framework like Swing and a code generator. > > > > something like my little baby ? > > > > http://jan.kneschke.de/projects/phpdesigner/ > > That's actually quite interesting. > I thought about doing something similar using Smarty and QuickForm for a > content management system but did not have the time yet to get really > into it. What makes Smarty interesting for this kind of things is its > ability to add modifiers to variables which can then be coupled to form > objects. > I thought about storing the page content in XML which can be parsed into > the right template variables for edit or display depending on the chosen > mode. > > A pity we can't look at your code ;) > > Bertrand Mansion > Mamasam We've created systems similiar to this with our library, PHP SiteManager. SiteManager itself is more of a "framework" for designing such things, that includes an API for creating reusable Modules of code and placing them intro arbitrarily defined "areas" in templates (which can be recursive). Anyway, it might be of interest to some of the readers of the list - it's open source and freely available at http://www.roadsend.com/siteManager Shannon