www.gbtechnologiesllc.com

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Sat 9. Jul 2005, 17:19

Here's a new site based on some technical white papers for a new concrete product: http://www.gbtechnologiesllc.com. It makes for some good bedtime reading.

elmerone · Post by **elmerone** » Sat 9. Jul 2005, 18:55

Nice and clean. I'm sure the client is happy. It looks really well done.

I have a question for you - you used .phtml instead of .php - I'm pretty new to .php and Content Management, and am trying to pick up as much as possible.

Why did you use .phtml, and what benefits / differences does that offer? Also, how were you able to utilize the content created / managed by phpWCMS with it?

I know this is kind of an odd place to ask such a thing, I'm just curious.

thanks

John

pepe · Post by **pepe** » Sat 9. Jul 2005, 19:27

Hi Ben,

well done...

But the lines are much to long! Very difficult to read!

http://www.gbtechnologiesllc.com/experienced_team.phtml

Would't it be nice, to have some photos (or white space), to shorten them somewhat?

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Sat 9. Jul 2005, 20:05

@ elmerone

Thanks for your kind words. The .phtml is realized by changing _.htaccess to .htaccess and enabling url re-writing in conf.inc.php by setting $phpwcms["rewrite_url"] to 1. To be honest with you, I don't even know what phtml stands for. I'm sure google would have a quick answer for us. I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say, "Also, how were you able to utilize the content created / managed by phpWCMS with it?"

@ pepe

Thanks for your kind words, as well. I agree that the lines are long, which is why there are wide left and right sidebars on most of the pages. It would have been nice to have a photo of each person on the page that you referenced. I guess I could have split that page into 2 columns with 3 bios on the left and 2 on the right.

The client is very happy, so I probably won't end up changing the columns, though.

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Mon 18. Jul 2005, 15:31

Wow! I like it, i like it a lot!

Just one question, was it neccessary to using phtml? or could you do it with normal php? whats the real reason with going to the effort for phtml?

Thanks

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Mon 18. Jul 2005, 16:48

Thanks, Gaz. Here's a thread related to your question - http://www.phpwcms.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7729. It's really no trouble at all to turn on re-write functionality. You just enable it in the config and remove the underscore from the front of .htaccess. I prefer my urls to be .com/alais.phtml instead of .com/index.php?alais.

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Tue 19. Jul 2005, 07:39

Oh ok, I get it now, its just aesthetical changes to site address... cool

hey.... can I 'borrow' your color scheme and layout? If you dont like the idea then its ok....

Kosse · Post by **Kosse** » Tue 19. Jul 2005, 10:17

Nice done Ben!

I guess I could have split that page into 2 columns with 3 bios on the left and 2 on the right.

If u know what to do

The client is very happy, so I probably won't end up changing the columns, though.

But when clients are happy, they... are! Isn't it what we're supposed to aim for?

Btw,

It's really no trouble at all to turn on re-write functionality. You just enable it in the config and remove the underscore from the front of .htaccess. I prefer my urls to be .com/alais.phtml instead of .com/index.php?alais.

Cyaneo found a nice (and easy) way to rewrite with html... look here:
http://www.phpwcms.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7773#44878

Cheers