Sorry for being the 'odd one out' but I think it's way too complicated.. Might as well edit perl directly...
May I suggest you try something like 1 per script... where you have tags for repeating sections.. e.g. (tags shown as '{' and '}')
postlist.pl example:
Header info goes here
Header row info for table
{ITEM}
Formatting for each
{/ITEM}
End of table stuff
The {ITEM} {/ITEM} would repeat for each post that existed in the forum. This would make the templates look very 'real'...
Don't think of this as a bad remark on what you've done.. but as a positive comment. I admit I would probably give up myself :-)
My idea does have one drawback.. it's not possible for individuals to specify different templates for different parts of the same pages. T.b. honest.. I don't think that a web site colours are the key to its success.... People go to web sites for what they offer... Customization of the kind 'what information you want to see' is good.. - Therefore.. for any 'choose your skin' options... please make them optional (i.e. admin can disable)
Sebastien.
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