PyroCMS v0.9.7.4 - an open-source modular general purpose CMS

[eluser]Yorick Peterse[/eluser]
[quote author="Phil Sturgeon" date="1244523343"]Oh cool! The assembla ticket mentioned I had an old installer knocking around in the old SVN repo but hopefully this one will be even better! Perhaps you can steal a bit of that or something, who knows.

Lots of the news is hard-coded yes. One thing I'd ask is that if you do modify much of it, could you perhaps look at modifying the other themes too? Otherwise as you start commiting work it will start breaking my design lol.

One thing we need to work out is how to keep the styling for the layouts modular and theme dependant... If the CSS is in module folders, it is not theme dependant. If it is themes, how do new modules get their CSS in? Etc...

Thanks for all the help on this Yorick, grabbed a copy of your theme and so far it is brilliant![/quote]

What you could do is make a folder for each module in the your theme folder. Users who have worked with Joomla before will know what I mean, if not take a look at the following:

Themes structure

Code:

themes
  |
  |
  your template
    |
    |
    Modules
      |
      |
      News
      Packages
      etc

So when the user goes to a certain module, let's say the news module, the system will open the associated .php file for the module (which is stored in the themes folder). This will make templating a bit harder, but it does give you full control over the layout.

This type of templating will most likely also require the users to tell the system where those modules have to appear.