AppDB TODO update: Templates

[Stefan Pflüger]

Basically, I'll implement a class that is able to read a template file 
and that can assign content to special tags in there.

The index.php would create an object of this class using a "main 
template" that includes all parts of the page that are static (header, 
footer, the main html tables). Depending on a GET variable, the 
index.php calls a function whose returned data will be used as the main 
content, it would be for example index.php?action=browseapps to get to 
the "Browse Apps" page.

The content of the sidebar, the banner ad etc. would also be created by 
a function like it's already done (see banner_display() in 
include/banner.php), but instead of just echo-ing this somewhere in the 
right place, it would also be fed into the template engine that again 
replaces the corresponding tags in the main template. Those functions 
might also use the template class to implement their own sub-templates.

In the end, the template class object in index.php should have the 
complete output ready for sending it to the user.

Hopefully, my short explanation was good enough to illustrate the concept.


Stefan

PS.: What's the correct list/address to send mails concerning this 
discussion to? I'm sending them to the wine-devel list atm, CCing to 
Chris Morgan and appdb at winehq.org...