[development] Making blocks from some setting in Drupal 7?

[Matthew Farina]

Putting function calls in the themes page.tpl.php file would be a step  
backward for the theming system.

For the page.tpl.php file the problem of only having the regions you  
want in the theme is solved in D5 with hook_regions and in D6 with the  
themes .info file.

If we want to keep the separation of layers in drupals PAC like  
architecture and allow for any kind of plug-able presentation layer  
function calls in the page.tpl.php file isn't a good idea.

The way we use theme('links', $primary_links) in the page.tpl.php  
files seems out of place. Shouldn't that be pushed to the preprocess  
function?

Matt


On Feb 23, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Larry Garfield wrote:

> That's also the original logic behind the component module:
>
> http://drupal.org/project/component
>
> That said, -1 to putting function calls directly in the template.   
> They're not
> portable to other template engines other than PHPTemplate.  That's  
> also
> putting too much logic into a template, where it belongs in a theme/ 
> template
> (preprocess) function.
>
> On Saturday 23 February 2008, David Metzler wrote:
>> Yep, I used something similar to this used to be possible in 4.7 and
>> I used it to create a region and put it in into a panel using Panels
>> so that I could still use block subscription and fole filtering logic
>> etc within a panel.
>>
>> For some reason it quit working in 4.7 most likely because I was
>> causing some system internal that shouldn't have been done.
>>
>> Love to see this supported.
>>
>> On Feb 22, 2008, at 5:20 AM, Gábor Hojtsy wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Earl Miles <merlin at logrus.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> Gábor Hojtsy wrote:
>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> My one concern here is that because the block system is push, not
>>>> pull,
>>>> all blocks in all regions are always generated, regardless of
>>>> whether
>>>> the page needs them. That means we run the risk of degrading
>>>> performance
>>>> by generating a whole bunch of material that we have no intention  
>>>> of
>>>> displaying, unless we have some way for the theme to signal which
>>>> regions it wishes to generate on any given template. And that's a
>>>> tough
>>>> thing to do in the current system.
>>>>
>>>> This is one of the reasons I like the panels approach, but that's
>>>> still
>>>> pretty far from being able to fully emulate the block system.
>>>
>>> Completely understood. I always disliked that PHPTemplate builds all
>>> block regions regardless of needs. I used to use lots of  
>>> conditionals
>>> around block region bulilding in my pure PHP themes (before  
>>> migrating
>>> over to PHPTemplate not long ago, due to its other advantages). So
>>> after all, a possible explosion of blocks / regions would require  
>>> some
>>> (more) benchmarking and thinking about block performance. (Given  
>>> that
>>> I am working primarily on better support for WYSIWYG right now, this
>>> is not my top priority unfortunately).
>>>
>>> Gabor
>
>
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