From quanta Wed Apr 30 23:43:22 2008 From: Andrew Lowe Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:43:22 +0000 To: quanta Subject: Re: [Quanta] How to make a web site? Message-Id: <200805010943.22707.andrew.lowe () manildra ! com ! au> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=quanta&m=120959905007220 On Thu, 1 May 2008 02:43:49 orphem@arcor.de wrote: > > Sorry. Maybe it's a matter of my bad english. A compiler *generates* > also a binary. That's, what I mean. Look at thewml.org and you see, what > I have in mind. > I am trying to understand how it works, but it looks like they have a few bugs on their site: I looked at their example page, and found that the links to source and output source, and get konqueror and firefox generating a cyclic link error (nice catch not done in IE last I looked). So it is hard to understand what they do exactly, but it looks like they take input wml files and convert them to various html files that are served by their engine based on language or other parameters....An interesting concept, but I would think that the speed advantages over php would be offset by the documentation on PHP... > >> If I have - for example - a index.xhtml and a history.xhtml and wants a > >> menu for this and other pages. How do I do this with Quanta? > > > > You can use templates and scripting. Any files you have that work can be > > made into templates easily and you might find my Kommander TemplateMagic > > interesting. It enables you to create and fill in fields in templates. > > Yeah, this seems to me very interesting. Any tutorial for this avaible? > > That may be still for every page the same menu. And I still must edit > this menu.html for each new page. > > > and now you make the menu once and by including it in every page they are > > all automatically up to date. > Your menu.php file that you include ( ) would contain something like: function getTitle($page) { // code to get page title... left to reader to do :-) } echo '
'; // start menu foreach(glob("*.m.html" as $thispage) // get menu items (menu items all end with .m.html - this way you only include items you want eg: index.m.html is a menu item, ccverify.html is not) { echo '
'.getTitle($thispage).'
'; // outputs the menu item } echo '
'; // closes the menu and some pretty css that gets included to render the menuItems nicely with effects (no javascript needed for mouse over effects using css) > A the system, for which I made this web site, is PHP not avaible. :-( Oh, well there goes that... :-( you should be able to do something similar in perl. or move to a provider that has php support :-P -- Andrew Lowe System Administrator & Programmer Information Technology Manildra Group Email: andrew.lowe@manildra.com.au Phone: 02 4423 8270 Mobile: 04 1323 8270 Fax: 02 4421 7760 _______________________________________________ Quanta mailing list Quanta@mail.kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/quanta