can anyone help me with this question?
On 9/12/05, clint lenard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Douglass, > > Curious about using Smarty (taking the Crash Course and bookmarked a > couple of other tut's)... One of the advantages of using a DB to store the > HTML Sites was the opportunity to give the user an automated Zip file of > their site if they wanted to download it and create their own site (domain) > with it at any time... can this be done with Smarty? Like I said - I've used > Smarty before - but only through a program called Jamroom - and it's > basically using their Variables for their program - and it was limited. > > So, my main concern is - if the User wanted to download their site and > have their own copy to upload to another domain - would it be possible to do > this? Sorry, my mind is tired along with my eyes... I guess I'm still not > 100% sure how Smarty works! > > Thanks, > > Clint > > On 9/12/05, clint lenard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Douglass, thanks for the tips! > > > > As far as Mambo or Xoops - I wanted to create something a little > > different - but I WAS thinking of using Smarty before-hand... I just wasn't > > sure how I could really use it? I'm familiar with Smarty as far as I've > > played around with it a little... but I guess I wasn't sure how I could use > > it in this situation... are you saying that I should have Smarty hold the > > design - and use MySQL to populate the "Virtual Sites" with the Content > > stored in the DB? > > > > It sounds like a great Idea and would probably be much more Resource > > friendly! This is why I asked for more info and gave more info - hoping NOT > > to get someone to code anything - but to give me Ideas on what would work > > the best. :) > > > > Thanks alot for the info Douglass! I'm going to search the web for more > > Tutorials on Smarty - hopefully I find something related to this! It'd > > probably make my life much easier if what I think you're saying is what > > you're actually saying lol > > > > On 9/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > clint lenard wrote: > > > > > > Hi guys, I'm fairly new to MySQL and I've searched for about a week > > > looking > > > for an answer to this... > > > > > > I'm trying to design a Database that would hold HTML sites in the DB > > > itself > > > and use PHP to call for the HTML file - which would be populated with > > > > > > Content from another table in MySQL. I was told I could put HTML into > > > MySQL... so my main question would be: "is this possible?", "is this a > > > BAD > > > thing?" but most of all... would this be resource intensive? > > > > > > > > > Thanks for any answers! I hope I'm using this list correctly - I did > > > search > > > Google and I've been reading an MySQL Manual for over a week now trying > > > to > > > get it down 110%! > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Clint > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If you would like, you may check out these related technologies that > > > do what you are talking about already: > > > > > > www.mamboserver.com <http://www.mamboserver.com> > > > www.xoops.com <http://www.xoops.com> > > > > > > Also, if you use templates, it makes it easy to just keep the relevant > > > parts of the page, and then display them inside of a predefined template. > > > That way, you can change the template whenever you want, and all your > > > pages > > > will change. If you store the part of the HTML that formats the text > > > (color, > > > style etc) in the DB, this isn't possible. > > > > > > smarty.php.net <http://smarty.php.net> > > > > > > wasn't sure if you could use any of these, but, here's the info. > > > > > > -- > > > http://www.douglassdavis.com > > > > > > > > >
