User selectable skins

[TheBulk]

Hi all,

Sorry if I put this in the wrong place. I wanted to know if it is possible to have a default skin for phpvms to load and then in each users profile section of the site under the profile options heading have a drop down box so they can select a skin and save it so that it becomes their fav skin and loads when ever they log in without affecting the skin other users see.

An example of what I am trying to say is they user theme selection many forums use.

Any thoughts on the idea would be great

Cheers

Jonny

[RogerB]

I inquired about this and was told it would be difficult.

[TheBulk]

That's a shame because I think that would be a cool feature to have.

[Tom]

Both simpilot and this Lorenzo fellow have done it.. I'm sure they could kindly share their wisdom?

[monkeypaw201]

Haha, I am most willing to share, The system I used doesn't work 100% because any core redirects reset the template, but I'll go ahead and share anyways;

My Way:

In /core/codon.config.php

I added to the top (before anything, but within the PHP tags):

if(isset($_GET['template']) && $_GET['template'] != '')
{
define('CURRENT_SKIN',$_GET['template']);
}

The Ideal Way:

The Ideal way to do this for pilots would be to tweak that code to read a cookie that would have to be set elsewhere, but if you set it (Excellent Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_http_setcookie.asp) you could then call it with:

$_COOKIE['template']

instead of

$_GET['template']

If you guys want, I can try and play around with this and see if I can get an easy way to get this to work.. problem is when you update it'll get overwritten.

[TheBulk]

Thanks for sharing it with us Lorenzo, I will try to integrate it to our site. Maybe we could develop it and get a fully working solution and then present it on here so that it might be adde into future releases of phpvms.

I would love you to have a go at trying to create something Lorenzo if you are happy to do so.

Thanks again Lorenzo and thanks Tom for your post.

[Kyle]

We need cookies, and drop down menu for pilots to chose what skin.

it shouldn't be too hard.

[monkeypaw201]

I'll see what I can cook up

[TheBulk]

Thanks Lorenzo that would be great.

[Kyle]

Yeah thanks!

[monkeypaw201]

Alrighty!

I've got it, was actually easier than I thought:

In /core/codeon.config.php add the following to the top (inside the PHP tags):

session_start();

if(isset($_GET['template']) && $_GET['template'] != ''){
$_SESSION['template'] = $_GET['template'];
define('CURRENT_SKIN',$_GET['template']);
}

if(isset($_SESSION['template']) && $_SESSION['template'] != '')
{
define('CURRENT_SKIN',$_SESSION['template']);
}

Now, the only thing YOU have to do is add a dropdown or links to change the skin. To change the skin, just link it to something like this:

http://www.yourwebsite.com/?template=crystal

-or-

http://www.yourwebsite.com/index.php/schedules/?template=crystal

Any page, just append ?template=TEMPLATEFOLDERNAME and it will set the skin.

Note however that if someone tries to become a smartypants, and put in a skin that doesn't exist, they'll get a blank page.

[Kyle]

i'll give this a try to see if this works.

[Kyle]

I-T--W-O-R-K-E-D-!!!!!!

Thanks!

Now i have to create a drop down menu, type of thing.

[monkeypaw201]

Yeah, but that's not too difficult

[simpilot]

Nice Work Lorenzo!

Nice to see you contributing to phpVMS

[monkeypaw201]

Thanks simpilot

[TheBulk]

Thanks Lorenzo for working that out. I am really pleased that it has been worke out after being told at the beginning of this thread that it was not possible. Hopefully this idea could be integrate into future releases of phpvms

[Artjom]

Nice work Thank you!

[Nabeel]

I'd put that code in the local.config.php so it's not overwritten in updates, but cool