01-05-2019, 12:05 PM
Right now themes do not affect the backend at all. Your front end theme doesn't need bootstrap at all.
I would definitely be interested in checking out smarty.
The problem with navigation (and bootstrap in general) is that there's not one particular way to do it.
Some boostrap themes wrap dropdowns in ul tags. Others have divs with custom classes. Stuff like that.
So although we can make a menu tree in the db, we can't auto render it without knowing what kind of format the template is looking for.
This is why we offer both db based and file based (just code your nav however you want it) navigation.
I will be the first to say that I don't like the interface of the db nav and I would definitely be open to changing it if there was a better way.
I would definitely be interested in checking out smarty.
The problem with navigation (and bootstrap in general) is that there's not one particular way to do it.
Some boostrap themes wrap dropdowns in ul tags. Others have divs with custom classes. Stuff like that.
So although we can make a menu tree in the db, we can't auto render it without knowing what kind of format the template is looking for.
This is why we offer both db based and file based (just code your nav however you want it) navigation.
I will be the first to say that I don't like the interface of the db nav and I would definitely be open to changing it if there was a better way.