[Koha-devel] OPAC dir structure redesign

Galen Charlton gmc at esilibrary.com
Mon May 6 17:18:12 CEST 2013


Hi,

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Ian Walls <koha.sekjal at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to interject here again the idea of creating a stable API for
> template variables, so that if people feel the need to template out there
> out theme, they can do so without having to re-engineer it mid-release.  Any
> changes to this API would need to be well publicized between major releases.
>
> In order to accomplish this, the following steps would need to occur:
>
> Identify the variables demanded by each page
> Consolidate variables that are shared into centralized includes/objects
> Fill in any missing variables or generalize where appropriate
> Document

I am in favor of this idea, particularly if we emphasize
consolidation, which I'm reading as increasing the consistency of the
template variables that we expose.

Who might be interested in working on this project?

Regards,

Galen
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