OK, let's nix my idea then :)
Erik, I feel your pain. Between the core theme functions, module's theme functions, tpl.php files, and the numerous CSS files loaded in - it's very difficult to even trace what's happening on a single page load. If there were some way to at least tell what was loaded and from where (something like the devel module) it seems like that velvet curtain would become slightly more transparent.
Farsheed
--- Erik Mallinson erik@invisiblelantern.com wrote:
I have to agree, I didn't know any php either and found it easy to understand. I was coming from MovableType after their pricing debacle, so tag formatting was what I knew.
What was hard, and still is, is trying to figure out what can be themed. It's felt like, and still does to an extent, like a velvet curtain is pulled over the guts of Drupal.
Erik
Laura Scott wrote:
When I started theming for Drupal in 2004, I knew
no php, and even so
I found these commands in the templates to be
quite obvious.
What's more, there are plenty of resources to
learn more PHP.
Adding yet more abstraction to theming seems to be
undesirable, imho.
After all, if one is php-phobic, there's always
the Smarty theme engine.
Laura
On Jun 23, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Farsheed wrote:
Hi,
In order to minimize the php code seen by a
themer, I
was wondering what people thought of making
simple
aliases for basic printouts of phptemplate
variables.
The phptemplate engine would go in and find these aliases and convert them to their actual values.
BEFORE:
<?php print $content ?>
<?php print $sidebar_left ?>
AFTER: {$content} {$sidebar_left}
Just looking to reduce the amount of potentially intimidating code for new themers. Of course
regular
PHP should still work.
Farsheed
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