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[phoenix-dev] Notes on using Phoenix
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I've been using Phoenix to start the new home page and the downloads
pages (http://phoenix.eclipse.org/ and
http://phoenix.eclipse.org/downloads/ respectively). Here are some
observations:
1. There's a bug (Ian discovered this) in the "phoenix engine":
subdirectories of a top-level directory (such as /org/howtojoin) need to
have the _projectCommon.php file. Two solutions come to mind - the
"phoenix engine" can find it itself, or each directory could be
considered a "project" with its own common values, such as a skin and
nav items. We can discccuss this monday.
2. PHP makes things flexible. I moved the downloads page, which is
mostly dynamic and database-driven, with little effort.
3. It takes a while to eliminate all the tables, tr, td and font tags to
move it all in the DIV, h1, h2 and ul/li tags, but the end result is a
clean page.
4. We need a visual template of what tags and styles are available, as
well as names for the page components (midcolumn, homeitem, etc). Shauna
is working on this.
5. We need a document that outlines the installation of the Eclipse
plugins we need (PHPEclipse, XAMPP, etc) to get the preview working.
6. Ian and I agreed that "Project Links" should be a common element that
we can include on any page. I'll incorporate this into the skin, and
you'll be able to add the whole section in any page with one line of code.
7. I agree with the comments on bug 111001 that there is a bit too much
purple, and I blame it on the left nav bar. I vote that we change the
color, make it lighter, or make it look like Miasma:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=25710
8. Mike had suggested we should also have Miasma skinned into XHTML/CSS.
I agree, it's a nice look and think some projects would like to use
it. We should also let the community know that they can keep submitting
design templates - we could then skin the ones the community like best
and offer them to projects.
9. I need to put the "Phoenix engine" (the template.php,
_projectCommon.php, and the eclipse.org-common/ directory) in our CVS
code repository for everyone to see it.
Denis
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Denis Roy
Manager, IT Infrastructure
Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
Office: 613.224.9461 x224
Cell: 819.210.6481
denis.roy@xxxxxxxxxxx
