Template Library Version 1.4

[eluser]Milos Dakic[/eluser]
[quote author="Colin Williams" date="1219457468"]Right, Milos. Like I said, the whole theming directory idea was already in place at one time and it was just as simple as you envisaged. However, let's assume at some point in the application, a programmer decides to use $this->load->view() instead of one of the available Template methods (and there are often situations where doing this makes sense). The load->view() method knows nothing of the Template theme, so the API breaks down. The programmer would be required to pass the theme directory in each instance he uses load->view().

Code:

$content = $this->load->view($this->template->theme .'view_file', $data, TRUE)

So, it's something I would consider adding back in, so long as the above caveat is made clear.[/quote]

Yes, that would be how you would do it if you were to use the CI format. OR if you don't want to use the Template library at all just put in the path yourself, which wouldn't be any different to users currently applying themes to their solutions.

[quote author="Colin Williams" date="1219457468"]

So by doing it this way, it would allow anyone to easily add/modify content within regions without making is messy.

I'm not sure I follow. Currently, regions have only 4 attributes: content, name, wrapper and attributes.

Wrapper and attributes I haven't found much use for and I don't even really promote the use of them. Content must be an array just because that's the data structure Template works with (but again I'm going to shift that burden from the config file)[/quote]

Well my config file array looks something like this:

Code:

$template['default']['regions'] = array(
    'header' => array(
       'content' => array('<h1>Welcome</h1>','<p>Hello World</p>'),
       'name' => 'Page Header',
       'wrapper' => '<div>',
       'attributes' => array('id' => 'header', 'class' => 'clearfix')
    )
);

I'm not sure if this is possible that why I made the suggestion in the previous post. To adjust the header content attribute I'd need to so something like:

Code:

$this->template->write('header/content','value');

Which would make sense and be simple to use(?). Since I don't seem to be having luck doing it any other way.