premiso Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Hello All! I am wondering what anyone on here uses for a blog templating script. I currently host a blog website and I am in the process of revamping/updating the code. Currently the user's templates use what is called "Easy Template System", which is way outdated (2004 I believe). I was thinking of Smarty, but I do not think that bulky of a template system. PHP I think is out of the question for the most part, as this is just general users I want it to be as simple as possible for them. I really would not mind implementing one that is already in mass production like a Blogger Template System for PHP, although my search has yielded failed results. If you have a system you use or an idea of one for me to implement I am all ears! Thanks. Just a note, if there is code already made, that is great. But just the idea of one is easy enough for me to implement, no need to break your heads trying to write code for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 PHP I think is out of the question for the most part, as this is just general users I want it to be as simple as possible for them. Either way your users are going to need to learn some new syntax besides that of just plain html. Minimal amounts of php within your view layer is easy (when programmed properly) to learn and will always execute much faster than any template layer you add to the equation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 PHP I think is out of the question for the most part, as this is just general users I want it to be as simple as possible for them. Either way your users are going to need to learn some new syntax besides that of just plain html. Minimal amounts of php within your view layer is easy (when programmed properly) to learn and will always execute much faster than any template layer you add to the equation. Maybe I will toss that idea around. I do not wonder if I could just have them use html like syntax....and parse out those bits. I will do some google research and try that route. Thanks for the reply thorpe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonsjava Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 actually, my wife designed her own site. We can take it and "re-skin" the whole thing by just modifying the CSS. Might want to look at that approach. CSS is more powerful than most people think. Heck, it's more powerful than I thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 actually, my wife designed her own site. We can take it and "re-skin" the whole thing by just modifying the CSS. Might want to look at that approach. CSS is more powerful than most people think. Heck, it's more powerful than I thought. That is really not a bad idea. The only issue I would have with that is CSS is a pain to get working cross-browser. But then again I may not care. Thanks for the idea, I really like that one and am going to look into that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 Solving. I think I found a solution that will work for me: http://www.walterzorn.com/dragdrop/dragdrop_e.htm Let the user be able to drag and drop on their site, then have an area where they can change the colors and fonts etc of each div. This should work out pretty good. Will be doing some testing on how to actually get it functioning. Thanks for the feedback! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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