[Mediawiki-l] Advice on templating

[sharmishtha gupta]

You can provide a framework as well as template. for Ex. Cakephp as a
framework can include template like Smarty in it. refer the link
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/how-to-use-smarty-with-cake-smartyview
where
you can perform documentation. i hope this will help

On 2/15/08, Rob Sharp <rob at boringbutgood.com> wrote:
>
> Morning all,
>
> I'm seeking a little advice on the use of Templates.
>
> I'm setting up an internal wiki at my company , the purpose of which
> is to allow various people to document our routines and program workflows.
>
> I'd like to standardise the layout of this documentation with regards
> to the basic information that needs entering. I thought I could
> provide a layout framework via a template, give people the basic
> information on how to include the template and they could then fill in
> the included template.
>
> Is there any way of setting up a template so that once included it's
> contents are editable on the calling page? Substitution achieves this,
> but then doesn't actually reflect that the page is using the template
> and so doesn't pick up any further changes to that template.
>
> I could use parameters in the template, but there could be a lot of
> information and this might be a bit cumbersome.
>
> Do I have any other options for achieving this?
>
> Please let me know if what I'm asking for isn't clear.
>
> Rob
>
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