Hi Alexander!
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 02:06:52 GMT, "Alexander Ross"
<alexross@bleen.net> wrote:
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>I've made several sites using PHP but they generally didn't have any
>exciting layout to worry about. I've also made plenty of static sites using
>Dreamweaver and complicated layout tables. Now I'm making a PHP site with a
>complex layout tables and graphics going on, so I need some opinions on
>stratagy:
>
>How do you (and I realize this is practically a religous question)[/color]
Yes, see the templates discussion some weeks ago.[color=blue]
>normally
>handle dynamic content buried in various tables while:
>1) not repeating code (php or html) over and over in the various pages[/color]
Use a template system (Smarty, PatTemplate, TemplateTamer etc), or
organise your code with a top-bit that contains all calculations and a
bottom bit that only goes <?=$var1;?> ... <?=$var2;?> etc in various
places.
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>2) keeping the layout tables from becoming scattered over various includes
>and functions so that you can no longer figure out what the hell is going on[/color]
Centralize all includes into one file and or put it only on top of the
file. Have only functions in includes.
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>Thanks for your thoughts[/color]
Your welcome,
HTH,
Jochen
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