[Koha-devel] Koha 3, new features local "includes" directory

[Paul POULAIN]

Hello,

During the dev_week, in May, we spoke of a new method to have 
personalized templates.
the idea being to have something more easy to changes than a full theme 
of templates.
It's very hard to keep a full set of templates uptodate, the 
difficulties we have with default & npl on rel_2_2 branch show clearly 
this !

HTML::Template is really smart : it contains a TMPL_INCLUDE pragma that 
can be used to import outside templates. The directories where the 
templates are taken from is defined when you open the template.

We have divided our PROG templates in different conceptual parts :

* the header, in doc_head_open.inc & doc_head_close.inc (we have 2 so we 
can put a <title> in it)
* the main menu, in menus.inc
* the module menu, in menu-modulename.inc. Each module (acquisition, 
cataloguing, authorities, circulation, members, serials, parameters, 
tools, reports...) has it's own included file.
* the main part of the page : it's specific to each template.
* the footer, in intranet-bottom.inc

I just have added a systempreference, called "intranet_includes" that 
let you define the directory where the included files will be taken 
from. by default, it's the "includes" directory. BUT, if you modify the 
value to "includes_npl", you'll arrive to something that look like the 
npl templates (roughly, it's just a Proof of Concept).
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Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT
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en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)
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