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btripp #209663 04/07/2001 11:49 AM
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Thanks to everyone for the feedback so far. It seems the main them here is there really isn't going to be one format that is going to please everyone and the main factor behind alot of the decisions that go on here is you guys are the customers and the customer is always right[]/w3timages/icons/wink.gif[/]. So that means we need more flexibility so everyone can be happy.

Templates is something I've wanted to do for quite a while. I made a very serious attempt at doing templates for the PERL version a while back that didn't go very smoothly. The main reason for this is PERL is coded with use strict to run under mod_perl so the variables don't carry over from script to script which makes templates very tough to do properly, but I have a few new ideas for this. The PHP version would be much easier to apply templates to though. The main thing with templates in a total dynamic site is they have to be done properly or the whole thing becomes slow because there is so much reading and parsing being done for each script.

So, again here is my proposal. The only thing that really started this was the fact that I asked if post headers on top were worth it and the new post icon things. Before that, everyone seemed fairly ok with the 2 different layouts. So, why don't I just finish the next version up, get it ported over to php and then take a look at templates.

Like Sharif said, I could start with a small template system on just some of the scripts like showflat and showthreaded instead of trying to delve into a complete template based system. This would allow for a testing period to see how it works, how people like the templates and what changes can be made to make them better before trying to do more of the scripts.

Thoughts?


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Wanna play? Rick 04/03/2001 1:33 AM
Re: Wanna play? Rick 04/03/2001 1:35 AM
A suggestion kimroan 04/03/2001 1:47 AM
Re: A suggestion MTO 04/03/2001 2:45 AM
Re: Wanna play? Brewskie 04/03/2001 3:02 AM
Re: Wanna play? MTO 04/03/2001 3:25 AM
Re: Wanna play? Eileen 04/03/2001 3:38 AM
Re: A suggestion Eileen 04/03/2001 3:39 AM
Re: Wanna play? Eileen 04/03/2001 3:41 AM
Re: Wanna play? patagon 04/03/2001 4:43 AM
Re: Wanna play? patagon 04/03/2001 4:53 AM
Re: Wanna play? Eileen 04/03/2001 6:50 AM
Re: Wanna play? Sharif 04/03/2001 11:19 AM
Re: Wanna play? zap 04/03/2001 12:44 PM
Re: Wanna play? Sharif 04/03/2001 2:24 PM
Re: Wanna play? Rick 04/03/2001 3:03 PM
Re: Wanna play? Rick 04/03/2001 3:05 PM
Re: Wanna play? Sharif 04/03/2001 4:29 PM
Re: Wanna play? poil 04/03/2001 6:13 PM
Re: Wanna play? Eileen 04/03/2001 7:07 PM
Re: Wanna play? Brewskie 04/03/2001 8:10 PM
Re: Wanna play? patagon 04/03/2001 8:47 PM
Re: Wanna play? Brewskie 04/03/2001 10:04 PM
Re: A suggestion Rick 04/04/2001 5:32 AM
Re: Wanna play? Rick 04/04/2001 5:34 AM
Re: Wanna play? Rick 04/04/2001 5:34 AM
Re: Wanna play? Rick 04/04/2001 5:35 AM
Re: Wanna play? Derek 04/04/2001 6:48 AM
Re: Wanna play? Derek 04/04/2001 7:04 AM
Re: Wanna play? Derek 04/04/2001 7:18 AM
Re: Wanna play? Derek 04/04/2001 7:32 AM
Re: Wanna play? Eileen 04/04/2001 10:46 AM
Re: Wanna play? Rick 04/04/2001 3:46 PM
Re: Wanna play? Derek 04/04/2001 4:01 PM
Re: Wanna play? poil 04/04/2001 4:04 PM
Re: Wanna play? Derek 04/04/2001 5:22 PM
Re: Wanna play? The Team 04/04/2001 5:59 PM
Lean Look Derek 04/04/2001 6:20 PM
Re: Lean Look The Team 04/04/2001 6:41 PM
Re: Lean Look Derek 04/04/2001 7:09 PM
Re: Lean Look The Team 04/04/2001 7:32 PM
Re: Lean Look Derek 04/04/2001 7:47 PM
Re: Lean Look The Team 04/04/2001 7:52 PM
Re: Wanna play? Eileen 04/04/2001 7:55 PM
Re: Wanna play? Brewskie 04/04/2001 8:29 PM
Re: Wanna play? Derek 04/04/2001 9:01 PM
Re: Wanna play? MTO 04/04/2001 10:02 PM
Re: Wanna play? Derek 04/04/2001 11:23 PM
Re: Wanna play? Rick 04/05/2001 4:36 AM
Re: Wanna play? Eileen 04/05/2001 6:44 AM
Re: Wanna play? MTO 04/05/2001 4:46 PM
Re: Wanna play? Eileen 04/05/2001 6:21 PM
Re: Wanna play? Brewskie 04/05/2001 7:05 PM
Re: Wanna play? Brewskie 04/05/2001 7:25 PM
Re: Wanna play? Rick 04/05/2001 7:35 PM
Re: Wanna play? Brewskie 04/05/2001 8:07 PM
I was thinking more on the lines of... poil 04/05/2001 8:30 PM
Re: Wanna play? MTO 04/05/2001 8:33 PM
Re: Wanna play? patagon 04/05/2001 9:51 PM
Re: Wanna play? Socrates 04/06/2001 3:39 AM
Re: Wanna play? Derek 04/06/2001 5:05 AM
Re: Wanna play? Rick 04/06/2001 3:15 PM
Re: Wanna play? The Team 04/06/2001 8:23 PM
Re: Wanna play? Eileen 04/06/2001 8:39 PM
Re: Wanna play? Rick 04/06/2001 9:50 PM
Re: Wanna play? The Team 04/06/2001 9:55 PM
Re: Wanna play? Brewskie 04/06/2001 10:03 PM
Re: Wanna play? BillD 04/06/2001 11:24 PM
Re: Wanna play? Sharif 04/06/2001 11:40 PM
Re: Wanna play? patagon 04/07/2001 12:01 AM
Re: Wanna play? Sharif 04/07/2001 12:15 AM
Re: Wanna play? MTO 04/07/2001 3:22 AM
Re: Wanna play? Jhariden 04/07/2001 4:13 AM
Re: Wanna play? BillD 04/07/2001 4:17 AM
Re: Wanna play? Jhariden 04/07/2001 6:11 AM
Re: Wanna play? Eileen 04/07/2001 6:45 AM
Re: Wanna play? Eileen 04/07/2001 7:13 AM
Re: themes - intermediate solution Sharif 04/07/2001 11:20 AM
Re: Wanna play? MTO 04/07/2001 2:06 PM
Re: Wanna play? sixpack69 04/07/2001 5:16 PM
Re: Wanna play? Rick 04/07/2001 6:49 PM
Re: Wanna play? Eileen 04/07/2001 7:06 PM
Re: Wanna play? Sharif 04/07/2001 8:38 PM
Re: Wanna play? Brewskie 04/07/2001 9:00 PM
Re: Wanna play? The Team 04/07/2001 9:38 PM
Re: Wanna play? MTO 04/07/2001 10:08 PM
Re: Wanna play? poil 04/08/2001 1:42 AM
Re: Wanna play? kimroan 04/08/2001 2:04 AM
Re: Wanna play? BillD 04/08/2001 4:12 AM
Re: Wanna play? Jhariden 04/08/2001 4:15 AM
Re: Wanna play? Eileen 04/08/2001 4:35 AM
Re: Wanna play? Rick 04/08/2001 4:41 AM
Re: Wanna play? The Team 04/08/2001 6:42 AM
Re: Wanna play? MTO 04/10/2001 12:55 AM
Re: Wanna play? Brewskie 04/10/2001 2:10 AM

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