One way is to develop the layout of the page you want and then start looking through the webtags to see what is available to provide the informaiton you want.
One site I have set up for a Cumulus user only requires Cumulus generating the cumuluswebtags file and nothing else. The remainder of the display pages are all PHP code which uses the #include functions to pull in the cumuluswebtags file so reference to tags such as $showthetemp, $lowestnighttemp etc etc (not real tags of course for the picky ones out there!) are all translated when the page is displayed. The benefit of doing this is that you don;t have to maintain Cum,ulus template files and then hope that all the relevant pages are transferred to your web site every time you upload (especially helpful if you want 1 minute uploading of the data).
The other benefit of doiong this is that you can use general files for things such as menu's, footers, heading and so on - so instead of having, say, 10 diferent pages and having to code the menu system in all 10, you have a single #include for the menu.php, footer,php, header.php (or whatever you want to call them) in each web page you display.
This is an example of the header.php I sometimes use:
Code:
<?php
require ("cumuluswebtags.php");
?>
<h1><?php $stationlocation ?></h1>
<h2 style="text-align: center; text-transform: none;" >
Latitude <?php echo $latitude; ?> <?php echo $longitude; ?> <?php echo $altitude; ?> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=<?php $stationlat ?>,<?php $stationlong ?>&markers=color:red|label:A|-37.870572,145.275324&maptype=hybrid&zoom=10&size=640x640&sensor=false">(Where is this?)</a><br /></h2>
<table width="60%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
<?php
include "config/menu.php";
?>
</tr>
</table>
Don't try to pick bones on this as I have changed some of the informaiton just to show how it can work. The first require pulls in the cumuluswebtags file; the latter include pulls in the standard menuing system. So, if this was, say, a basic current weather display, I would have the format of the display page all coded up (less menu's, header, footer) and then, where I need the header, simply use a include "config/header.php"; call and, because this also includes a call to the menu system, I don;t have to worry about it (because wherever I want a header, I also want a menu so the two go hand in hand all the time).
If this makes sense
If you want further help or better code examples/web site example, drop me a PM.
Login 
Register
Enhancement requests
Search
