PhatZilla Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 I may just be dense, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to change my site's appearance effectively. I have managed changing the images and colors and such, but as far as the actual layout and placement of things, all I have managed to do is move crap around in a non productive fashion. I made a file called test.php. In it I have <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title><?php echo $title ?></title> <?php Template::Show('core_htmlhead.tpl'); ?> </head> <body> <p> <?php Template::Show('core_htmlreq.tpl'); ?> </p> <p> </p> <div id="mycontent"> <table width="993" border="1"> <tr> <td width="868" height="57" align="left"> <?php Template::Show('frontpage_main.tpl'); ?> </td> <td width="109" align="left"><p><strong>Newest Pilots</strong></p> <p> <?php Template::Show('frontpage_recentpilots.tpl'); ?> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="46"> </td> <td align="left"><p><strong>Newest Pireps</strong></p> <p> <?php Template::Show('frontpage_reports.tpl'); ?> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="59"> </td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html> I tried it w/o the htmlreq and html head tpl's as they are in header.tpl. I'm so confused, I just want it to look like it does in Dreamweaver and I have not coded in PHP in a very long time, and this would be over my head anyhow. Do I have to copy every .tpl file i reference into my skin folder? How does it know what HTML file is my template file? I'm so lost and I've read the tutorial like ten times and lost my patients. I called the div mycontent in the head and it still hates me. any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhatZilla Posted January 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 Ok I didn't realize I needed to copy all of the tpl's to the skin dir. I did this and am editing the frontpage_main.tpl, it now looks like: <div id="mycontent"> <table width="993" border="1"> <tr> <td width="868" height="57" align="left"> <?php // Show the News module, call the function ShowNewsFront // This is in the modules/Frontpage folder News::ShowNewsFront(5); ?> </td> <td width="109" align="left"><p><strong>Newest Pilots</strong></p> <p> <?php Template::Show('frontpage_recentpilots.tpl'); ?> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="46"> </td> <td align="left"><p><strong>Newest Pireps</strong></p> <p> <?php Template::Show('frontpage_reports.tpl'); ?> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="59"> </td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> </div> But the recent pilots didnt populate... **EDIT** Still making progress, but some things still wont populate. www.westairregional.org/phpvms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nabeel Posted January 7, 2009 Administrators Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 Don't copy all of the templates, only the ones you change. Did you watch the video tutorial, that may help explain things a bit: http://www.phpvms.net/tutorials/skinningbasicsp1/ Give that a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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