[development] proposal for theming nodes

[Syscrusher]

On Thursday 15 December 2005 07:29, Bèr Kessels wrote:
> Op donderdag 15 december 2005 03:07, schreef Syscrusher:
> > Yes, but I was not planning to actually put $node->body into the new
> > array. A lot of existing code, both core and contrib, relies on $node->body
> > existing.
> 
> That was something I have been thinking about a lot too. If we watn to Do It 
> Good [tm], body should be in the array too. 
> And I think that backwards compatibility is not that bad. The changes required 
> are simple search nad replace things. 
> 
> But.... If we go down that route, then this one little thingy will become a 
> huge issue, holding down all development. 
> So a -1 on the theoratically better $node->extra[] body.

To clarify....  I meant, "$node->body shouldn't move into the new array *now*".
What I've proposed as the add-on doesn't break anything that exists today,
so existing modules can safely ignore the changes.

I was thinking to move the node body in a future release, not this one.

> 
> On another note, should we not use a better 
> $node->data? Since we are no longer talking about an "extra" array, but about 
> putting all data in a structured variable.

What about $node->content, if we are thinking along those lines?

Scott

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Scott Courtney     Drupal user name: "syscrusher"   http://drupal.org/user/9184
scott at 4th dot com       Drupal projects: http://drupal.org/project/user/9184
Sandbox:  http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/syscrusher