Re: [Koha-devel] templating

[paul POULAIN]

Tonnesen Steve wrote:

> After a bit of playing with HTML::Template I have the following proposal
>
> Templates stored in includes directory under templates subfolder, each
> module (ie search, circ, catalog, etc.) has another subfolder, then
> another subfolder for each template, and then subfolders for each version
> of that template.
If we really want to have a "plug-in" system that permits many looks 
and/or many languages, we must have a directory for each plug-in. thus, 
we MUST have, under the template directory :
DEFAULT
   opac
       search.tmpl
       search_result.tmpl
   librarian
       search.tmpl
       search_result.tmpl
       biblio_add.tmpl
       circulation.tmpl
   images
       image1.gif
       anotherimage.gif
FRENCH
   opac
       search.tmpl
       search_result.tmpl
   librarian
       search.tmpl
       search_result.tmpl
       biblio_add.tmpl
       circulation.tmpl
   images
       image1.gif
       anotherimage.gif
MY_GREAT_NEW_LOOK
   opac
       search.tmpl
       search_result.tmpl
   librarian
       search.tmpl
       search_result.tmpl
       biblio_add.tmpl
       circulation.tmpl
   images
       image1.gif
       anotherimage.gif
AQUA_LOOK
   opac
       search.tmpl
       search_result.tmpl
   librarian
       search.tmpl
       search_result.tmpl
       biblio_add.tmpl
       circulation.tmpl
   images
       image1.gif
       anotherimage.gif

Thus we can easily create a new "look" (directory copy + modifiing it), 
and build a .tar.gz dedicated to the plug-in.
When koha is launched, you just have to scan the "template" directory 
and list all sub-directories.
We could even have 2 librarians with a different look. (which may be 
interesting for international libraries like mine ;-) )
This structure is used by softs like nuke / post-nuke, and are great.
--
Paul