1.5.0 Template Discussion

celestial wrote:What happend if i need more categories on the principal home tab menu

Daniel wrote: its going to have a system that will allow you to get rid of the columns and the main content page will spred out.

oliverker wrote:Hey, (first post)
Thought I'd add my bit to this one. Templates look great, but what I'm most interested in is the schemantics and HTML that is used in the templates.

I'm yet to build my first store as waiting for text product options etc to become core... Anyway what has drawn me most to open cart is that even though the template files are a little bloated with divs, tables and the odd inline style, I can edit the template file (which I'm currenly doing to html5) to exactly how I want and the simple php tags can be moved around easily without breaking anything. I'm a front end designer so I don't really understand php - but insist on having control over the output of HTML and CSS (plus any other jquery plugins).

An example of this is the input fields in the templates are marked up great!
<input type="text" id="email" name="email" value="<?php echo email ?>" > is something like this at the moment and I can quickly change it to HTML5
<input type="email" id="email" name="email" value="<?php echo email ?>" required>

Seems a bit simple and why you ask but this type of control is what I like, as some other carts might just use <?php echo emailform ?> meaning I have to alter the core files which is not good for updates.

So... My thoughts are that I'm going to be creating my own templates so love the ease of editing them how they are now and hope that isn't going to change.

Thanks Oliver

JAY6390 wrote:Well, you say that but it's not strictly true, sure it is for the main part of the views, but the modules like the categories are just <?php echo $category; ?> which i don't like personally, it should just be an array of values, and then the menu built in the view using php

mystifier wrote:the central area to float into the space (hence giving a dynamic two/three column layout)

mystifier wrote:According to http://www.html5test.com/ my IE8 scores 27 points out of a possible 300 for HTML5 support so I don't think I will be changing tags any time soon.

JAY6390 wrote:Pretty sure the recursion is the reason that it's been done like that, as you don't want to have that in the view

JAY6390 wrote:Well recursing an array would require a function, since the array can be an infinite amount deep, so it would make sense to keep the function out of the template

JAY6390 wrote:Well recursing an array would require a function, since the array can be an infinite amount deep, so it would make sense to keep the function out of the template

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