infoboxes and inlcudes/classes/boxes.php

[adiwillow]

Hi all,

As i understand it, we can customise, to a degree, each individual infobox by adding a infoxname.tpl.php to templates/templatename/boxes/ .

That fine and dandy.. all works well.

Anyway, i'm a table hater, and want to change all my infoboxes to just divs.

BUT, although i can specify a new div layout in the tpl.php box files, its still surrounded by all this crap from includes/classes/boxes.php !!!! I dont want corner images, or table cells, or any of that. I just want the boxcontent ouputted without any of that rubbish surrounding it.

Can it be done? can i just scrap the table code from includes/classes/boxes.php somehow and just use the code from the tpl.php files?

If so, how? What do i need to keep in there and what do i need to get rid of?

cheers
adi

[met00]

Yes it can be done, but you will have to change how infoboxes work. Start by creating a new class for boxes.php called divboxes.php, drop the references for boxes.php rewrite the classes to act as you want and add the new class file divboxes.php which now has your classes that work properly for divs instead of tables.

OSC is not dhtml friendly by nature. Adding dhtml to a table based application is NOT easy. It can be done, but you are really taking the entire application apart to put it back together again.

On the other hand, if you were to create a dhtml version of BTS you would find many people willing to pay for such an template interface

[adiwillow]

thanks ... i'll look into it.

I've already got most of the standard OSC page templates converted into divs ie product pages, category sections , checkout pages, the main template etc etc.. but the infoboxes are really bugging me.

A pure div BTS templating system.. would it really be that difficult? i already think i'm half way there.