regen_r8 wrote:
When the decision was made to separate the templates from the themes back in January, there should have been some thought to having the modules ship with some alternate templates.

MithyT2 wrote:
it's unpaid, though

$vararray = explode("/",$var_val);

// Our array would look like array("artilceid","3","page","4","var","value");

//then a for loop like this would release everything to the name sapce

for($i=0, $i != count($vararray);$i++){
$$vararray[$i] = $vararray[$i++];
}

1. What is $xoopsOption, and what does this line do:

$xoopsOption['template_main'] = 'news_index.html';

I think what it does is tell the php file what SMARTY template to use (although on the smarty site the template files are .tpl, not .html). Is that right?

2. Why is it that $xoopsOption is used for things like:
$xoopsOption['storytopic']
$xoopsOption['storynum']

. . . but $xoopsTpl->assign(...) is used for everything else?

In other words, if 'storytopic' and 'storynum' aren't needed for the template, why not just save them as scalar variables $storytopic and $storynum? Why do you want them as part of the $xoopsOption object? Perhaps knowing the answer to #1 above will help me understand this.

3. At the bottom of the index.php file, there are a bunch of what look like config assignments:

$xoopsTpl->assign('lang_go', _GO);
$xoopsTpl->assign('lang_on', _ON);
$xoopsTpl->assign('lang_printerpage', _NW_PRINTERFRIENDLY);
$xoopsTpl->assign('lang_sendstory', _NW_SENDSTORY);
$xoopsTpl->assign('lang_postedby', _POSTEDBY);
$xoopsTpl->assign('lang_reads', _READS);

Are these required all the time? I can't find where they are used, or how they are used. They don't show up in the template file at all.

Thanks in advance for any help.

function makeUrl($mod_path,$mod_alias, $page_name, $var_array){

// error check, does this file exist?
if(!file_exists($mod_path.$page_name){
$error = 'return an error, page doesn't exist';
return $error;
}

// assemble var value paring
$count = count($var_array);
if(is_array($var_array)){
for($i=0;$i!=$count;$i++){
var_val .= $var_array[$i]['var'].'/'.$var_array[$i]['value'];
($i < $count)? var_val .= '/':'';
}
}

// strip the ".php" off the page name
$page = substr($page,0,strpos(".php",$page));

// assemble new url
$url = $mod_alias.$page."/".var_val;

return $url;