[themes] shortcut for phptemplate variable printouts

[SavoryMedia (site email)]

I'd definitely be up for testing and bug notifications. *thumbs up*

MJ



Adrian Rossouw wrote:
> 
> On 25 Jun 2006, at 1:39 AM, Max Bell wrote:
> 
>>
>> Granted, this could probably be accomplished by pouring over the code by
>> hand and looking for such instances, and people might blow it off like 
>> they
>> do thumbnails for themes.
> actually. i have been meaning to bring this up.
> 
> the split templates code.
> 
> we have split all templates into individual files, and added a _widgets 
> hook (ties into cck's use of 'widgets', and how forms api  does it's 
> elements).
> Basically, so far we've only got it to a point where it's 10% slower 
> than current core, but it's a lot clearer to themers than the current 
> system.
> 
> Basically, anything that can be overridden, is just a file you copy from 
> the one directory, into another. (it also allows for a proper theme 
> editor to be written.).
> 
> The _widgets hook is actually the mechanism you use to expose the theme 
> functions, and we want to turn it into a point where you provide 
> specific argument types
> (ie: node, node-title, etc), so that we can create a standard set of 
> lipsum, to help generate a single page 'contains all markup' html page 
> for styling. among other things.
> 
> What I need though , is other people to help test / profile / speed up 
> the code. I have serious time issues for the month of july, and we 
> really are almost there.
> I'd be available to walk people through the code and get everyone up to 
> speed during this week. Anyone interested in helping getting the theme 
> system more usable,
> please let me know.
> 
> -- 
> Adrian Rossouw
> Drupal developer and Bryght Guy
> http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com
> 
> 
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