Themes

[ljhelbo]

This may be a silly question - but after reading the new blog-entry, I wonder if the themes for Bolt and Pivot 4 will be the same?

Oh yes, and by the way - does this mean that PivotX 3 has been dropped?

[Bob]

This may be a silly question - but after reading the new blog-entry, I wonder if the themes for Bolt and Pivot 4 will be the same?

Not exactly, but they will be quite similar. They will both be Twig templates, and a lot of things will be done in the same way.

The main differences will mainly be because of the different functionality of the tools. For example, Pivot 4 will have 'views', not unlike Drupal has. To get the content in a view, you'd do something like:

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{% loadview foo = "bar/blabla" with { bla: 'bla' } %}
{% for fooitem in foo.htmliterator %}
 ( .. do stuff with {{ fooitem }} )
{% endfor %}


While Bolt doesn't have views like this, you'd use simpler constructs to get content:

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{% setcontent foo = "bar/latest/3" %}
{% for fooitem in foo %}
 ( .. do stuff with {{ fooitem }} )
{% endfor %}


So, yes they are similar, no you can't just put bolt templates in pivot 4 and expect them to work immediately.

Oh yes, and by the way - does this mean that PivotX 3 has been dropped?

Correct, there will be no PivotX3. We were working on it as a continuation of PivotX2, but we decided it was time for something better, so we started over from scratch.

[Schop]

To help with Twig, there are some excellent tools available.

For myself, I've installed Sublime Text 2 (http://www.sublimetext.com/2) with the Twig bundle (https://github.com/Anomareh/PHP-Twig.tmbundle) added on, and it will highlight twig tags and stuff. Makes it a lot easier to code.

Not trying to plug any products here, just trying to be helpful.

[Bob]

I'm also a fan of Sublime Text.