kure

Those are definitely some good suggestions. I was actually a bit hesitant in implementing the ability to template the admin interface at all for the same reason you mentioned, but I hadn't thought of separating it from the main site; that sounds like a good change to add to the 0.7.1 to-do.

The idea of template-specific plugins had crossed my mind, mainly concerning the ability of certain templates to want to add some sidebar-gadget thing, or an extra something somewhere on the page that gives templates more freedom (like a rotating banner, for example).

But I'm not sure that I want to close them off so much -- since all the hooks are the same no matter what template they're under, supposedly a plugin that works in the template it was "created for" will work anywhere else, too. And putting it into the template's folder would mean, for users who don't know any better, that when the template is gone, so is the plugin.

I don't want to create that sense of dependency between plugins and templates -- I believe they should remain separate, both in functionality and in concept.

All that aside, however, there is probably something that can be done to interface the two as "optional dependencies", so to speak. And template authors who do want to include a plugin in their template are still welcome to do so (although I'd still encourage them to release the plugins by themselves :D).

And I'll be sure to include suggestion 3 in the next release as well ;P Thanks for mentioning all that!

Nope, you're not the only one who encountered this issue.

I've fixed it by creating two more template files but the template folder is getting a bit messy this way :)

While looking after this I found another small issue: the tables created in admin_header.html are not closed in admin_footer.html.

I suggest changing the markup in admin_footer.html like this:

      </td></tr>
    </table>
  </body>
</html>

:)

Nope, the markup for admin_footer.html only solves an not-so-important markup issue.

To solve the problems with the plugin-listing not showing up I've applied the following code changes and templates:

In /admin/index.php search for line 112-122:

elseif(isset($_GET['plugins'])) {
  print("<span class=\"pagesub\">plugins</span><br />\n");
  print("<div style=\"position: relative; left: 8px;\">");
  plug("admplugins", "listing");
  print("</div>");
}

elseif(isset($_GET['plugin'])) {
  // blank page for plugins to use as a config/about page
  plug("admplugins", "page");
}

Change the code like this:

elseif(isset($_GET['plugins'])) {
    runtemplate("admin_plugin-listing");
}

elseif(isset($_GET['plugin'])) {
  // blank page for plugins to use as a config/about page
  runtemplate("admin_plugin-page");
}

After you're done create the two HTML files below and save them into the /templates/sanitation directory.

admin_plugin-listing.html

    <span class="pagesub">plugins</span><br />
    <div style="position: relative; left: 8px; padding-top: 10px;">
    {HOOK:ADMPLUGINS-LISTING}
      </div>

admin_plugin-page.html

    {HOOK:ADMPLUGINS-PAGE}

Bear in mind this is a temporary fix. Skoh might have other ideas to fix this issue.

Also,  Congratulations on your Graduation!

:)