Re: Class structures & templates (was Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Filename Standards?)

[Chris Weiss]

> I've been developing a custom template for phpgroupware and have found
>that for apps such as calander that use this system, adding/modifying
>templates can require extensive modification to the ui classes stored in
>the /inc directory of the application. Would it not make more sense to
>have these class files stored in the template directory of the app, or
>at least allow developers to have their own custom ui classes in their
>template directory of the application which, if a custom file exists, it
>would override its respective file in the inc directory? This would
>allow templates to be developed without requiring modifications to the
>initial code, allowing the same flexible template structure that existed
>with the old system.

What kind of modifications?  Most templates just make changes to the surrounding
structure and lets the app define how it will look inside that.  I also recal 
the
used of php file in some of the apps's template dirs, though I don't no if they
will provide what you are looking for.  IIRC, anglemail does this to handle the
it's different layouts within the templates.