[geeklog-devel] CSS-Layout possible!

[Joe Mucchiello]

At 09:38 AM 9/18/2007, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>In the end I think we should support using straight CSS with DIV's 
>and Tables.  We do a lot of this stuff at work and what we find is 
>that generally the Header/Footer and body content are put in their 
>own TD tags and within them we do a lot of DIV's.  It's pretty much 
>how we strike a balance between overdoing it with tables and trying 
>to make the most use of CSS.
>
>So maybe we can have a config file switch or a switch in the theme's 
>functions.php that lets the theme developer decide?  I don't think 
>this has to be all or nothing...I think we could accommodate either methods.

I'm no CSS expert but if order of appearance in the output matters, 
then we just need a config option that handles order of appearance. 
Then we don't care if the theme is CSS or TABLE based:

$_CONF['layout_order'] = Array('header', 'left', 'center', 'right', 
'footer'); // if we use Oliver's single function
OR
$_CONF['layout_order'] = Array('siteheader' => Array('header', 
'left'), 'sitefooter' => Array('right','footer')); // using 
siteHeader/siteFooter and center is assumed to go between the two arrays

Then in the theme's functions.php, it can reassign them as needed.

OR

Just let the theme specify the templates entirely:
$_CONF['layout_templates'] = Array('main' => 'something.thtml', 
'header' => 'header.thtml', 'footer' => 'footer.thtml', 'left-blocks' 
=> 'left-blocks.thtml', ....etc.);
$_CONF['layout_parse'] = Array('header', 'left-blocks', 
'right-blocks', 'footer', 'main'); // specifies the order in which 
the parts will be parsed.
(Again, assuming Oliver's single layout function. With header and 
footer in two functions, just add another array level: 
$_CONF['layout_templates'] => Array('siteheader' => Array(...), 
'sitefooter' => Array(...));

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Joe Mucchiello
Throwing Dice Games
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