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Hi,
I have a question for the fellow XOOPS module developers:
I've modified/developed a few modules in last two years, but I still have trouble managing the tempaltes aassociated the modules. What I uaually do (when I'm in good mood) is to write the templtes in html, uplaod to the web server, install or update module and try to run the page. What frustrates me is that whenI just need some minor changes in the layout or some Smarty variables, or even to correct a small typo, I'll have to do the whol thing again.
If I just modify the html file on the server, without updating the module, it would work. Apparently, when rendering the pages, XOOPS reads from the databse instead of html files. Sometime I get lazy, and edit the template in the databaase directly (via Admin's tempalte management page), I can get instant response on the pages being displayed, but there is a risk: I would someday accidently overwrite the template in db with the ones in html files, unless I download it immediately (XOOPS amdin provides this functionality)