[Pmwiki-users] Skins

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 12:37:08PM -0500, Dave Noonan wrote:
> 	I spent a few hours playing with the layout this morning and I got 
> 	more or less what I want (maybe a little less) but it was kind of a pain 
> and now my config.php is full of layout variables that I'm about to move to 
> a separate file. The problem then is that the php is in local while the 
> css is in pub/skins and the images are... where ever you put them.  This 
> invites a load of confusion.

I'd really like to invite less confusion, not more.  And as you
correctly point out, increasing the number of locations to place things
increases confusion (which is why I've argued for fewer predefined
directories, not more).

> 	My idea of how to lay arrange this is to have pub/skins/myskin and 
> 	some variable in config.php that includes the word 'Skin' and points at 
> that directory. Then PmWiki includes the php file 
> pub/skins/myskin/myskin.php and links in pub/skins/myskin/myskin.css and 
> looks for logo.jpeg and whatever else you included in that directory.
> 
> 	Is there a better way? Have I missed something? Can I do this now?

The only thing you may have missed is that in general I think it's
a bad idea to have incomplete .php files (such as a skin layout configuration)
in public directories.  Plus it doesn't seem like something that belongs in 
pub/.

Is there *anyone* out there who thinks the new layout scheme is a
good way to go?  Based on the amount of negative feedback coming across
the listserv I'm tempted to just scrap the whole thing and start
over.

Pm