[Koha-devel] OPAC dir structure redesign

[Kyle Hall]

I'd be willing to donate some time to this project. I think we need very
standard variable names. For example, any and all pages about a single
patron should have a standard patron variable ( let's say "Borrower" ). The
same thing should go for records. Each record should have the biblio and
biblioitem fields at the first level, and an "items" field that is an array
of the items. Any pages with a plurality of records or patrons would just
have a plural name instead ( "Borrowers" ), and be an array of the same
data the singular would have.

My instinct is telling my that DBIx::Class would make this easy, as it can
do lazy fetches of data so we aren't loading up data that never gets used.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Kyle

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ByWater Solutions ( http://bywatersolutions.com )
Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org )
Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com )


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> 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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