Hi- > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [magnolia-user] Sharing templates, styles, etc. ... > > (goodusername) wrote: > > > So, have anybody thought of any way of gathering all this > resources in > > some sort of > > export template mechanism (yes, I know I can zip them, but > I prefer some > > class to that for me). > > I think it could be really cool if you could wrap up individual > templates as web applications (in war files). That way you > could simply > drop it in your Tomcat webapps-dir. > > I don't know the inner workings of Magnolia enough to say if this is > even remotely possible, but I saw that Liferay Portal Server > handles its
AFAIK Skins in Liferay are Portlets, so you can wrap them up and deploy them as portlets. As Magnolia has no protlet support, you can't go that road rigth now. > themes and skins this way. Perhaps one of the developers can give a > rough estimate here? I'd love to help extending the product > with these > thing, I only have the same problem as many of you I guess: A day > seriously lacks hours!! ;) > > But until functionality like this (or standardized ways of > wrapping up > templates/paragraphs) turns up, we ought to go ahead and Magnolia uses it's own extension mechanism [1]. So you will end up with a jar that includes the resources, some config files and at least one java class that implements info.magnolia.cms.module.Module . > create a wiki > page for these things. I just think that the wiki-way of handling > uploaded files is somewhat limited, but ok .. > > > I hope this is going to be much easier in 2.2 and above > > For now we should be very carefully gathering all the info about a > > single template (module???) > > Yes, templates can get so complex that the install-description alone > will probably keep most people from trying to install it. But > as far as > simple stylesheets goes, it's fairly simple to share good designs. > > > /Martin > -markus [1] http://magnolia.sourceforge.net/21/advanced/modules.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- for list details see http://www.magnolia.info/en/magnolia/developer.html ----------------------------------------------------------------
