Layout

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The layout of the ea-Geier is bases on hierarchical HTML templates based on the template engine Smarty.

Templates are HTML files which hold special constructs marked by curly brackets {}. The template engine replaces those constructs with content provided by the system to create the final HTML page. In the ea-Geier we basically use three types of those contructs:

• variables {$...}, which are replaced by data;
• language constants {#...#}, which are replaced by appropriate vocabulary of the momentarily valid language;
• control structures {...}, for example loops or conditional content.

The templates are stored in the html/ folder and have the file extension .tpl.

Corresponding language files are stored in the lang/xx/ folder - where xx is the language code for the used language, e.g. de for German or en for English - and have the file extension .ini.

The data assignment is handled in separate files in the code/ folder structure with the file extension .html.php.

The style sheets - defining the exact layout and color scheme - are located in css/.