Site Templating Approach

[bora]

Hi everyone,

I'm starting to code PW side of my first ever PW project. Really excited to see how it goes.

While starting out I'm planning a template approach to use in the project mostly relying on wireRenderFile method. As it is my first project I wanted to make sure this won't cause me problems in the long run.

Here is how I started out:

I have two functions in _func.php as helpers. One of them is wrapper for wireRenderFile and the other is appender for $content for not using $content .= everywhere

I have a global variable called $site. I normally avoid global variables but in this case I'll only have one and its not so different than using $homepage or $title before the includes (or is it??). I'm thinking about making a module for this to keep _init.php clean

And in the _main.php my code is like that, with the common areas for pages. For the content of pages, I echo $content for the page content I gathered. For example, for basic-page template file:

You can see usage of both functions here.

That's all for the start. I'm trying to keep it simple to prevent going out of my hand.

Do you see any "do not" or "should not" points here, or have any kind of recommendations?

Thanks ahead

[Macrura]

you may be able to use $config class for your custom site variables;

[bora]

Thank you Macrura,

I think I should do this for like that? 

//set the data
$config->set('site',$site);

//and reach in templates
$config->get('site');
//OR
$config->site;