Thanks, I'll give it a shot - hopefully, I can make this work, but I suspect that I'm going to have to go another direction (other than CPG)
I do know that there are other designers who don't use coppermine specifically due to the tables - as we like to design with css rather than tables. (layout of course, not DB tables - those we need
I had hoped to use CPG to make file management easier for my client, and I thought this might work...
I love the amount of control that cpmFetch gives me in all the other areas - if only I could get those <ul> and <li> tags.
Thanks again for your help
I actually do that quite a bit for clients of mine (
http://www.explosivo.com). Its a great thought. I've done everything from pure CSS layouts to hybrids and integration of other stuff.
The whole header at
http://cpmfetch.fistfullofcode.com/ is css layout. And on the body of the page, its html tables in a css layout design.
It's actually on my long list of things to do, provide different outputs. I would say a lot of designer do like CSS, but from my experience only about half of them really embrace it. Others get pithy over the "tiny little things"
At least the two guys that work for me are that way. Funny that the biggest push to use CSS is from clients who are not sure why they want that - but its the cutting edge of technology and my cousins, friends, roommates, ex-girlfriends adopted simian told them it was a must for a web site.
Anyway, bigger parts like this I tend to wait until I have a customer that is willing to pay for the development and allow the code to go back to the community. Either that, or when I myself develop a need for it. I know about enough CSS to make the cpmfetch site, and some dynamic rendering for AJAX and such, but not enough to make good decisions on how a css layout would work best.
If you learn the littleist bit of php, you can make it output whatever you want.
Vuud