Template incompatibility / Joomla 1.5 Templates ???

[rentasite]

I found a template that is designed for the new Joomla 1.5

I tried to upload it through the Admin Panel with no success. So i uploaded it with FTP. And the problem is, that it doesn't show up in Elxis admin panel. I cant see it in the template's list.

Haven't seen yet if any file is missing, but i thought it would be a good idea to post this topic first.

Im talking about AkoTorro
http://www.mamboportal.com/

[Ivan Trebješanin]

Too much to speak about in forum post... but, take look at index.php header section. You have to change there a lot of things. Installation is not working because of this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> in templateDetails.xml... it should be:<?xml version="1.0"?>
but I think that if you spend few minutes on deeper analysis you can make it work for Elxis.

[datahell]

Joomla 1.5 will be almost totally incompatible with Elxis, and in templates too. We also moving to an other direction.

[rentasite]

We also moving to an other direction.

Such as?

[datahell]

We are not copying Joomla's changes in Elxis supernet. This is NOT Elxis. If they want to move to another direction we wont follow them. We are an independent project.

When the developement finish we will publish a big list of changes regarding to the 2006.x series. The last idea is to add support for FireBase and InterBase databases, there is no CMS for these databases available! We are focusing in a CMS that respects users. So Elxis future is: multi-lingual, multi-database support, multi-enviroment support, multi-purpose CMS. Elxis has advanced features build-in. A simple example: in Elxis 2007 the pathway is translated to human understandable language!

Elxis 2007 in general is much more modern, elegant and many features are integrated with each other giving more control on the site with less effort. For example you can add personal shortcuts in backend and this is done with integration with SoftDisk (a new feature - a kind of memory stick for Elxis) and Elxis tools. Elxis 2007 will be much better than 2006.4. Off course there will be upgrade patch from 2006.4 to 2007.0.

Note for the screenshots: The CSS work is not finished.

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[rentasite]

Ok. Im not comparing anything. I was talking about TEMPLATES.

[datahell]

Joomla changed their templates system, not us. Take a look at their new templates to see the differences.

[rentasite]

Yeah thats why i started this thread. Didn't know. Know i do. 

[xos]

Joomla changed their templates system, not us. Take a look at their new templates to see the differences.

Hello,

Joomla! 1.5 didn't change the template system, they just simply changed the code.

For example:

<?php mosLoadModules ('left'); ?>

became

<jdoc:include type="modules" name="left" style="table" />

This

<?php mosMainBody(); ?>

became

<jdoc:include type="component" />

And so on...

My belief is they (Joomla) wants out of the Mambo shadow and they are definitely going in another direction, whether good or bad I don't know. Are the 3PDs gonna follow them, I don't know. But they sure have an amazing number of addons.

There has been talk about changing the current Joomla template system, many oppose, many are in favor.

[datahell]

But why to change something that works good? I can not find any other reason except that they want to totally modify the code inorder to be able to change joomla's license... I dont like speaking about mambo or joomla here so I have nothing more to say.

[xos]

But why to change something that works good? I can not find any other reason except that they want to totally modify the code inorder to be able to change joomla's license...

They're not changing their license, read this.

The templating system is exactly that same as in Mambo and Elxis, the only thing (as I said before) is they changed the code a bit. Which just makes Mambo and Elxis templates noncompatible with J! 1.5.

[dyrer]

Older versions of Joomla used a template language processor called patTemplate to supplement Joomla directives. In newer versions of Joomla, however, patTemplate has been discarded because of the reduced server performance and the increased learning curve caused by use of the template engine. Pure PHP can be compiled for much faster performance — if template code isn’t used. Further, the template engine forced developers to learn PHP and the template engine for control functions (such as loops), rather than simply using PHP alone.

[Ivan Trebješanin]

They're not changing their license, read this.

WRITING and READING something is NOT always the same as DOING something. I've seen whole lot of injustice in joomla forums since the middle of last year, and also lots of unhappy developers and users. But, I really don't see the point of discussing something that is not related to Elxis on THIS forum. I would however, like to discuss Elxis 2008 template system, as I find it very exiting.