[geeklog-devel] Geeklog Template Class Improvements

[Tom]

Okay I have most of the Template Caching Library in place.

When I commit this the following items will be in place and working:
- The Template Caching Library
	- Config Option to disable caching
	- Config Option to Include Template Comments in Page Source
	- What it Offers (see
http://www.glfusion.org/wiki/glfusion:development:usingtemplates for full
details)
		- Caching of Template files (Compiles templates to PHP code
for enhanced page load speeds.)
		- Ability to specify multiple locations to search for
templates. (this allows for Themes based on a default theme, images would
still need to be copied over)
		- Automatic Language File Variables (like so:
<tr><td>{$LANG_USER[name]}:</td><td>{username}</td></tr>)
		- PHP Code in Templates
		- Comment Removal in Page Source
		- Logic Processing using template variables (really useful!)
(based on template variables and can call any global function)
		- Replacement Template Variable Manipulation Modifiers
- Clear Cache tool added to Geeklog Command & Control
- Installer will also check for the cache directory and clear the cache on
upgrade
- I also added the log viewer found in the ban plugin to the Geeklog Command
& Control.

I also removed the config option 'supported_version_theme'  from
theme_init_foo function and added it to the theme_config_foo function. You
can also add to the config option 'theme_default' theme_config_foo function
which you can set with the name of the default theme for your new theme if
you only want to include templates that have changed.

The following items I still plan on adding for Geeklog 2.0.1 at some point
later
- Adding {# and #} around all template comments in all themes (I could use
some help here or an automated way to do this...)
- Caching of Article Contents

Caching is not limited to this. At some point we could also add it to other
things like Staticpages, Polls, Calander and the What's New Block.

The only limitation on Caching that I can see is with the use of Autotags.
If autotag content changes over time this will not be shown in the cache
files until it is rewritten.  This can happen in stories (when I implement
caching for them) and with autotags in templates (only when caching is
applied to templates before processing like with the Header and  Footer.
There may be a way around this (by just not caching the autotag output) but
I have to look into it further.

Tom


-----Original Message-----
From: geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net
[mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] On Behalf Of Tom
Sent: April-12-13 7:32 PM
To: 'Geeklog Development'
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Geeklog Template Class Improvements

Yes it will have a config option for disabling the CTL along with a few
other options.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net
[mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] On Behalf Of Kenji ITO
Sent: April-12-13 6:33 PM
To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Geeklog Template Class Improvements

Tom wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am looking into updating the Geeklog Template Class with the one 
> from glFusion.
>
> I have most parts working but I still need to do a few tweaks to get 
> it working 100%. Before I spend more time on this I just want to get 
> everyone's thumbs up or down for adding it to the repository.
>
> Here are the features it will Add:
>
> - All current Geeklog themes, plugins, etc.. will be compatible and 
> require no changes (except maybe for the media gallery that already 
> uses the caching template library)
>
> - A Caching Template Library (Compiles templates to PHP code for 
> enhanced page load speeds). This can be turned off if needed as there 
> are some cases with servers that have slow disk access which may give 
> negative speed improvements
>
> - Adds logic processing to the templates
>
> - Themes can now be based on another theme and only contain the 
> changed template files
>
> I will also have to reapply most of the changes from 2010 onwards that 
> we did to our current Template class (which are only a few).
>
> Let me know what you guys think?
>
> Tom

Good news!  I would like to see the features implemented.  Whether to turn
on caching should be an admin configuration item.  Besides, I hope to see a
fall back feature, where some template file of a new theme is missing,
Geeklog will use the counterpart file of the default theme.
--
Kenji
http://mystral-kk.net/


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