[Phpgroupware-developers] feedback to tpl engine in head

[Philipp Kamps]

Hi ya'll,

I spend some time with the actual code in head.
I really like the xslt-tpl-engine. In my opinion it is
a good idea to move some logic to the tpls (to the .xsl files).
It remembers me a bit to the smarty-tpl-engine.

But there also some things that should change:

- I like that the default tpl also uses CSS files for layout
  definition. But there is a fall-back missing for other tpl
  sets. So for example if you define a new, great tpl-set
  (probusiness ;-) ) you have to create these files in your
  api folder.

- The navbar images have to be .gif files. I would prefer .png
  (and I have specified this in phpgw setup as well).
  I added a patch to savanah which enabled alpha channel in IE.
  As far I can see there is no good reason to still use .gif files.

- The framework method in class.common.inc.php should be a separated
  class. So we can remove some code from this class and for customer
  projects we easily can adapt the framework by creating a child of
  this class.

- I really love the idea of the phpgw class in phpgw-api as a central
  class all classes should extend of. 

- The html HEAD should be a separated .xsl file and not be a part of
  the framework .xsl file. We need this htmlheader (without the hole
  framework) in html IFRAMEs for example.

So far so good.

Cheers, fips from probiz

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Philipp Kamps
- Team Softwareentwicklung - 
pro|business AG
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