The way Cotonti is building web pages

You can think of Cotonti as a "dumb machine", it simply picks data from MySQL database and sends it to client (web browser) through a template engine, the "theme".

Theme — a set of files used to programm pages layout and its styling.  style named xxx.tpl in folders inside /skins folder (for example: /themes/mytheme)
Template file (usually have .tpl extension) — a file made of simple HTML code, plus some placeholders named "tags"
Tag — special marked place...

Cotonti is an agile website engine with rich history and new capabilities arising every release. We like it for its clarity, reliability and speed. But how about more unique layouts available? Let's give this CMS a fresh look and handy controls!

You can do that by entering the skinning contest in 2 nominations at once. First one is web vote: visitors will vote for their favorites and top 3 skins will get a bunch of dollars in addition to their titles. The second nomination is jury prize: if you...

When we played with XTemplate, we discovered that its code is quite messy and inefficient. We thought of probably rewriting it b...

yo There's probably a guide somewhere but: I made a template, pure html and css now, I pretty much have a rough idea on h...

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