I recently went through the tedious process of converting a high end custom Joomla template (complete with css, js, mootools effects, etc.) over to an existing cake app.
The site looked really nice afterwards, and I thought - hey, it sure would be great to be able to leverage all the nice commercial Joomla templates for my cake apps. However, it was a fair amount of work to integrate the template with the cake app, such that the effort eliminated much of the "cheapness" benefits of the template itself. I'm trying to think up an easy way of automating (as much as possible) the process, so that for subsequent cake apps, one could just "install" a Joomla template, much the way the Joomla CMS does. One approach, which I dislike, is to use Jake to integrate the cake app as a Joomla component, then use Joomla itself to manage the template. However, I don't want or need all the extra Joomla CMS code lying around. Also, I want cake to manage the site, not Joomla. So, I wondered if anyone has come across any thinking about the issues in building a joomla compatable template bridge ? Ideally, with a couple of clicks, the goal should be able to install and manage a joomla template much as one would do with the Joomla CMS (obviously the cake views would have to use Joomla html/css conventions - but that's the easy part). Anyone know of any resources, open source or commercial, which enables and/or researches this idea? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
