can anyone help me with this question?
On 9/12/05, clint lenard <clint.lenard@stripped> 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 <clint.lenard@stripped> 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, douglass_davis@stripped < douglass_davis@stripped>
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> >
>
