Has anyone tried this?
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No, although it reminds me strongly of Wordpress in terms of how the files and sites are structured. It does not look trivial to use Freeway in conjunction with this system, as everything visual has to be expressed in .tpl files and CSS. My advice (exactly the same as my Wordpress advice) is: if you see a template you like here, and your client likes the admin interface, then go for it and good luck. You will definitely learn something about CSS and modern site design if you need to dip in and make some design tweaks. But using this would be a huge step in a different direction than the one in which Freeway has been carefully leading you.
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On Mar 2, 2012, at 3:20 AM, BigG wrote:
Has anyone tried this?
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good call Walter.
I once worked on those .tpl files in OpenCart. This was exciting, but did this in Espresso (or similar) naturally.
I recognized your TemplateHelper but haven’t had the time to have look at that (shame on me). Wouldn’t it be thinkable to use this to reproduce a tpl-structure? Open spoken:
What does .tpl mean? Isn’t it something like a simple file-ending so to type in the inspector:
template.tpl ?
being at least “partials”?
… or am I totally wrong here
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Thomas
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TemplateHelper can help you create partials, which are fragments of HTML that get inserted into a larger whole. By itself, Freeway cannot make a page that doesn’t have the entire html / head / body structure in place, and a partial is just that – maybe as little as one table row as a separate file:
<tr class="{{stripe}}"><td>{{name}}</td><td>{{phone}}</td></tr>
if you were making a phone book application, perhaps.
The tpl extension doesn’t mean anything in particular, these are just HTML (text) files with some template placeholders sprinkled through them. I believe these are using PHP SmartyTemplate syntax, although it’s been some time since I used that, so I can’t say for certain.
You are correct that you could use Freeway to generate a tpl file, after all, it doesn’t matter one bit what you use as the filename extension in Freeway. But looking at the examples they post in the template design documentation, it does look pretty well like a text editor would be the only sane tool to use. Freeway gives you a lot of freedom to sprinkle code throughout your design, but it does so in a fairly opaque manner. Only the outermost .tpl file could be made in (non-Actioned) Freeway, though, because it would be the one place where you actually wanted the whole html / head / body structure.
Walter
On Mar 2, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Thomas Kimmich wrote:
What does .tpl mean? Isn’t it something like a simple file-ending so to type in the inspector:
template.tpl ?
being at least “partials”?
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