non-templated version?

digininja · Post by **digininja** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:56 pm

I have tried phpMyFAQ and really like it but I want to integrate it with my site without using templates, I want to ask the phpMyFAQ backend for data and the parse it as I want.

My main reason for this is I am trying to make a site which valiates to strict XHTML and is also fully accessible which means no tables for layout and things like that. These are things which are currently hardcoded into what goes into the replacement areas in the templates. I am also planning a text version which I can access through a CLI for when I only have ssh access.

I started hacking the code to get it to do this and did the "most recent 5 entries" failry easily, changing them from a table to an ordered list. From this I know that the code is written in a good enough way to may doing this fairly straight forward.

My problem is that I don't want to modify the existing code too much so that when a new version comes out I don't end up having to diff every file so that I can re-apply my changes.

So, my question, has anyone done this already or is anyone else interested in helping to do this or offering advice?

Just to reassure people, I would make sure that there is an obvious pointer to the fact that my site is powered by phpMyFAQ.

Post by **Thorsten** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:17 am

Hi,

I'm working on the new templates for phpMyFAQ and if you like, I could patch your work into this new version. I plan to make the Top Ten and the latest records as lists, too.

bye
Thorsten

digininja · Post by **digininja** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:53 pm

All I did was a proof of concept thing with the 5 recent items and that was on a version 1.4 release so it won't be much use now.

I don't know how much time I have to work on this but what I would like to do is get your new 1.5 release when it is stable and work on that. I had two options, the first was just to hack the existing functions and get them to return what I wanted or the second was to add new functions which used the existing ones to return data rather than formatted HTML.

Obviously if it will be more than just me using this then the second option is better as it does allow you to add it to your work if you think it is ok.

How much do you think will be changing between your current beta 3 and the release candidates and then between them and the final version. If it isn't likely to be much then I could start looking at stuff soon and get some stuff off to you so that we can get an idea as to whether it is worth doing or not.

Post by **Thorsten** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:42 am

Hi,

I'm only on bugfixing and work on the new templates for 1.5.... your work could be included if you like.

bye
Thorsten

digininja · Post by **digininja** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:53 pm

I know that I'm not likely to get time in the next week or so so I'll get back to you when I have managed to fit it in.

Hopefully it won't be too long

Post by **Thorsten** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:46 am

Hi,

no problem!

bye
Thorsten

digininja · Post by **digininja** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:10 pm

I've just done some work on this, I've done the top 10 and the 5 newest entries, how do you want me to give you my changes?

Post by **Thorsten** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:12 pm

Hi,

just send them to me by e-mail as full file or patch file. Thanks a lot!

bye
Thorsten