[Xerte-dev] Re: Pre 1.8 / Post 1.8

[Pat Lockley]

Well each template is a module - so something like Nottingham or RSS - basically the modules folder

I wouldn't suggest fetching - just a "your files aren't the latest" display

On 27 May 2012, at 10:27, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:

> Pat,
> 
> What do you mean with module? A page within a page template, or a complete different template?
> 
> I don't think I understand what you want to achieve, so I am not sure I have an educated answer.
> 
> With respect to automatically fetch things from svn, I do that at the moment in the translation website, but I am convinced it is NOT such a good idea for XOT itself. I think as admin of XOT website you want to be able to control the templates and even on purpose not give access to several of the available features.
> 
> Tom
> 
> Op 26-5-2012 20:44, Pat Lockley schreef:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've got a WordPress module which does a half decent job of displaying
>> a http://simile.mit.edu timeline
>> 
>> It would be relatively trival to strip the code out and making a free
>> standing PHP class / creator.
>> 
>> With WordPress and Drupal, you can add new modules by using a
>> formatted text file in the modules, or plugins folder.
>> 
>> Would it make sense to remove, or allow for submission into
>> originaltemplatesdetails by basically looping over a folder? This way
>> it'd be simpler to add a module.
>> 
>> -------------------------------------
>> 
>> David / Tom - We could add a call to see if the SVN had updated as
>> part of the script? Would maybe help out on that front?
>> 
>> ------------------------------------
>> 
>> The bigger issue, is that if I do this (and the above makes sense even
>> without adding new things) some stuff created in XOT isn't Xerte.
>> 
>> My thinking was I can write a moodle extension to do it, but that's a
>> lot of work.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Pat
>> 
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