Image template management and manipulation

[ywickham]

I'm creating a site that displays templates and a backend system that allows the owner to upload template files. The template files will have sections for images and text. I had originally thought I would ask the owner uploading templates to specify parameters for where the images and text belong on the template and then store them in they database, but asking for info like that seems too much for the non-technical user.

I'm currently using PHP to code, MySQL to store data and ImageMagick to manipulate the images.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to approach this?

Is there a better way for me to approach this?

Thanks!

[leatherback]

Have a look at e.g. the wordpress tenmplating system. They have a fairly decent setup in my mind. In the end, you have to define which variables a template producer can use. So: $menu1, $body, $header etc. You specificy which variables are available, and what they contain. They do the further template, using yoru variables.

[ywickham]

Thank you for the suggestion. I'm very familiar with Wordpress, but it's not suitable for this application. The templates I referenced are actual images, not HTML templates, so it's not like I can add a variable wherever I want to insert data.

Any other suggestions?