Re: Template Proposal

On Thu, 08 Nov 2001, Peter Bowyer wrote: > Well, here's the section I was thinking of: > > {* This generates the code for the thumbnail table *} > <table border=0 align="center" width="500"> > <tr> > {section name=numloop loop=$data} > <td valign="top" align="center">{$data[numloop]}</td> > {* see if we should go to the next row *} > {if (%numloop.rownum% mod $num_columns) == 0} Better write it as: {if (%numloop.rownum% is div by $num_columns) == 0} It's a bit more "understandable" that way. > </tr> > {* don't start a new row on the last loop *} > {if not %numloop.last%}<tr>{/if} > {/if} > {/section} > </table> > > It doesn't take much mucking around to ruin it :-) So, what do you think they would muck around with? > And then what if they suddenly want alternating rows different colours? I > hope you see what I mean... the PEAR table class would probably have been > better, except then I have to change the code if they want to change the > design. You still have to educate them a bit on 'if' expressions and its parameter. > Part of the problem is that I'm designing for lower-than-designers - I want > my script to be usable by anyone with basic knowledge of HTML, and things > like the {section} block above IMNHO give them too much chance to muck it > up. And yet I want to abstract _all_ design from code :-) That's kind of impossible, methinks. -Andrei * "UNIX, isn't that some archaic form of DOS?" - our job applicant *