Hi Frederic,<div><br></div><div>Wow. :-) It must be Christmas already! Thank you for replying that detailed.</div><div><br></div><div>I already had a github account, but yesterday I started getting involved a little bit more by forking Typo, so I can follow the current source tree and have the chance to send patches back upstream.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The work on my first template is progressing fine in general (it already works satisfying in 5.1.3), thanks to Scribbish being a good model to look at when starting something new. Right now, I'm dealing with a couple of details I haven't understood yet. For example, when linking the style-sheet in the layout.html.erb:</div>
<div><br></div><div><%= stylesheet_link_tag '/stylesheets/theme/application.css', :media => 'all' %><br></div><div><br></div><div>The 'theme' string does not appear on the live site in the path. Is this some kind of placeholder mechanism? How exactly does it work?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I also want to create some href tags programmatically like </div><div><br></div><div><%= link_to this_blog.blog_name, this_blog.base_url %><br></div><div><br></div><div>but pointing to the admin page instead.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I haven't yet understood how the view dispatching works in Typo with templates, but my next step would be to look at the code and work my way through the code, so I can understand what's available and what I might need to add myself.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I noticed your activity at github yesterday and I have to say that I've got a very good feeling about Typo. I think there's a lot of potential in it. I hope I can add to it.</div><div><br></div>
<div>thanks and a happy holiday season,</div><div><br></div><div>Tobias</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:11 AM, de Villamil Frédéric <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederic@de-villamil.com">frederic@de-villamil.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Le 20 déc. 08 à 12:34, Tobias Weisserth a écrit :<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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Hi everybody,<br>
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I am new to Typo and just started using it. I chose Typo because I'm sick of hacking PHP applications which look good on the outside but stink on the inside.<br>
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So, my first question is about documentation. Where do I start? I want to know about how to write templates for Typo and I want to add Plugins and maybe even hack core files. Is there something like an API documentation?<br>
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I already got some nice results by creating a template and comparing it to the ones coming with Typo. However, I want to do more:<br>
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* I want to be able to place (specific) plugins (like the "Pages" plugin) outside of the sidebar partial. So, it would be nice to have another custom partial to place plugins in (for example a horizontal aligned area).<br>
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* I need to know where to find information about what method calls are useful for template creation. Is there a place where I can read about that?<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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Tobias<br>
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Hi Tobias,<br>
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Sorry for not replying sooner, I had to translate my Typo theming quickguide in english before this.<br>
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* To call specific plugins, you want to read <a href="http://www.bofh.org.uk/articles/2007/04/14/cunning-typo-sidebar-tricks" target="_blank">http://www.bofh.org.uk/articles/2007/04/14/cunning-typo-sidebar-tricks</a><br>
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* I've just translated my theming quickguide, which is at <a href="http://github.com/fdv/typo/wikis/typo-theme-creation-quick-guide" target="_blank">http://github.com/fdv/typo/wikis/typo-theme-creation-quick-guide</a>.<br>
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Typo plugins are basic rails plugins for now. Except for sidebars, we don't really have any plugins API like Wordpress has. However, you can just write rails plugins and call the methods in your template.<br>
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I know Typo lacks documentation, and this is a point we need to improve on.<br>
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Hope this helps,<br>
Frédéric<br>
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