[development] Node Rendering Debate

[Amr Mostafa]

I don't think a UI is needed for assigning theme variables and I don't think
drupal_render($node['details']) is that much bad for themers, it has an
obvious name and function and I don't see why it would be hard to describe
it to themers.

The issue I see here (which you all are aware of I know, and the UI solution
is also trying to solve), and that always bugged me when trying to explain
it to themers is that how you know that $node['details'] is available and
has what you are looking for. I think a good solution is to have a generated
custom help page where it lists all the defined variables and their
descriptions. And by letting modules specify a #description attribute when
adding to the $node->content we can use that to generate such a help page.
I'm not up to date with the changes of the theming layer in D6 so I'm not
sure of the do-ability of this.

So to conclude, I think drupal_render() is great, a help page would
accomplish one of the UI goals but would spare us the trouble of naming
variables because as a themer, why would I care if the variable is
'field_details' or 'mydetails'... etc. I will just use it whatever it's.

- Amr
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