To Jessica Hyman (who I'm also sending this to):
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This is what I have so far for a basic template. Home and About are the
only links that do anything. I was wondering if you have any images or
content you might like to see on these two pages. Also, I know some
things are ambiguously worded (i.e. Login/Register we'll probably want
to specify it's for organizational use).


Chris: Essentially I devised a poor man's content management system
The hierarchical flow, quite similar but not identical to what Mike and
I did with the CSSA site goes:

index.php
--head.php
--body.php
----login.php
----header.php
----nav.php
----content.php
------main.php
------sidebar.php
----footer.php

Instead of branching content.php or main.php (like the CSSA site using
WordPress), you completely replace them.

Currently, the only thing I set up to demonstrate/test this is the about
page, which replaces main.php.

The index.php file in the about directory sets two variables: $TITLE and
$PATH, and then includes the index.php file of it's parent directory.

The base files check for files of the same name in the $PATH directory
to include instead of the file in the base directory.

So the tree for the about page would be this:

index.php
--head.php
--body.php
----login.php
----header.php
----nav.php
----content.php
------about/main.php
------sidebar.php
----footer.php

Meanwhile, you can replace anything that's a child of index.php as well.
So I'd expect you'd replace sidebar.php with to include a div for the
map. I'd expect there to be circumstances where someone might want to
replace the entire content.php, if not just to include breadcrumbs and
link back to the main content.php afterward, for instance.

The one reason this isn't a good method is that it's file-driven rather
than content-driven, but it will work for the scope of what we're doing
(as well as simplify our workload), and I'd expect it to be easily
replaced by the next person with any content management systems
experience.


MIKE:
Wasn't that page in a database?

On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 04:09 -0400, Christopher Anthony Tucci wrote:
> mike: thanks for the info, youte the man
> 
> jake: no, havent heard anythign at all yet.
> 
> 
> trying to remain calm.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Jacob Beauregard <[log in to unmask]>:
> 
> > Mike: Whoops... didn't realize that I did that. Do you have the account
> > for the Google Calendar so we can get that back up?
> >
> > Chris: Don't worry about it. I've got a general template, based on what
> > she said, but nothing so far as content-related yet. Have you heard from
> > that guy at all yet?
> > http://www.uvm.edu/~jrbeaure/cs148/finalproject/_index.php
> >
> > On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 00:36 -0400, Michael Evan Karpeles wrote:
> >> First, noticed you fixed the sizing of the classes for posts, Jake.
> >> Cool beans. Why did you kill our static events page with Google
> >> calendar on it?
> >>
> >> Anyways, here's the link I forgot to send in the last email:
> >>
> >> http://www.uvm.edu/~mkarpele/OCELOT_Sponsorship_Requ.html
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >> - Michael E. Karpeles
> >>
> >