[Xerte-dev] Re: Modular Play and New Templates

[Pat @ Pgogy]

Duplicate the modules xerte folder into modules new template name

Keep the edit php file as it is still xerte

Mangle play and preview to present the HTML

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On 7 Feb 2013, at 09:46, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Question for Pat I think:
>  
> With the html5 playout, Fay has added play_html5.php that does the work, that’s all fine. I’ve got a new template I’d like to build in that produces this stuff:
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/boostrapLO. The editor is a standard xerte wizard / xwd thing, but it uses its own html page to parse the xml and create the content.
>  
> So I could add another html page to the folder and repeat what Fay has done for html5, but that seems a bit messy to sustain if, one day, we have loads of runtimes doing different things, I wondered if your modular stuff handled this in a more graceful way?
>  
> There’s another difference here: Fay’s html5 code plays existing content – so you have two alternative urls for the same piece, ultimately we’ll switch toolkits to use the html5 one as the default, and the old one will remain as a legacy. In my case, it doesn’t work like that, these projects will always only use their html page: so that needs to be the url to display in properties for the project, and I guess that’s what needs to export as well.
>  
> What do you think is the best thing to do?
>  
> Julian
> 
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