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I want to have a theme switcher for my site. Actually just a switch between two. I have seen the stories with code snippets for a switcher but one comes as not found, and the other, relies on the code from the first.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
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is there a way for an admin type person to have this pulldown show up, on their admin page, and the theme then change for all anonymous users?
Cool, thanks. i was thrown off when I searched before because the search results that were recent had "0" replies. But I clicked on the first one and I all is well. Thanks again.
Cool, thanks. i was thrown off when I searched before because the search results that were recent had "0" replies. But I clicked on the first one and I all is well. Thanks again.
Quote by Dirk: Try searching for "theme tester". In fact, we've just been through all this a week or two ago.
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Quote by spatz4000: is there a way for an admin type person to have this pulldown show up, on their admin page, and the theme then change for all anonymous users?
Hmm, the anonymous users get to see the default theme, which is set in config.php. That would be tricky to do and involve having a writable config.php file, which doesn't sound like a good idea from a security point of view ...
A more doable approach may be to write the admin's selection to the database (to, say, the gl_vars table) and then have a piece of custom code in lib-custom.php that pulls that out of the table again and sets $_USER['theme'] for anonymous users (for which it's not normally set). Not sure if that'll work, but I think it would. Now you only need to find someone implementing it ...
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I know a little PHP, so that'll be my project for Tuesday. I'm basically trying to make theme selection as simple as possible ( ie the user won't know how to change the config file ). Thanks for the tips.
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Hmm, the anonymous users get to see the default theme, which is set in config.php. That would be tricky to do and involve having a writable config.php file, which doesn't sound like a good idea from a security point of view ...
A more doable approach may be to write the admin's selection to the database (to, say, the gl_vars table) and then have a piece of custom code in lib-custom.php that pulls that out of the table again and sets $_USER['theme'] for anonymous users (for which it's not normally set). Not sure if that'll work, but I think it would. Now you only need to find someone implementing it ...
bye, Dirk
Quote by spatz4000: is there a way for an admin type person to have this pulldown show up, on their admin page, and the theme then change for all anonymous users?
Hmm, the anonymous users get to see the default theme, which is set in config.php. That would be tricky to do and involve having a writable config.php file, which doesn't sound like a good idea from a security point of view ...
A more doable approach may be to write the admin's selection to the database (to, say, the gl_vars table) and then have a piece of custom code in lib-custom.php that pulls that out of the table again and sets $_USER['theme'] for anonymous users (for which it's not normally set). Not sure if that'll work, but I think it would. Now you only need to find someone implementing it ...
bye, Dirk
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Trying to get an idea on what needs done. I would need to add a column to the gl_vars table ( call it default_theme or something )?
Quote by spatz4000: I know a little PHP, so that'll be my project for Tuesday. I'm basically trying to make theme selection as simple as possible ( ie the user won't know how to change the config file ). Thanks for the tips.
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Hmm, the anonymous users get to see the default theme, which is set in config.php. That would be tricky to do and involve having a writable config.php file, which doesn't sound like a good idea from a security point of view ...
A more doable approach may be to write the admin's selection to the database (to, say, the gl_vars table) and then have a piece of custom code in lib-custom.php that pulls that out of the table again and sets $_USER['theme'] for anonymous users (for which it's not normally set). Not sure if that'll work, but I think it would. Now you only need to find someone implementing it ...
bye, Dirk
Quote by spatz4000: is there a way for an admin type person to have this pulldown show up, on their admin page, and the theme then change for all anonymous users?
Hmm, the anonymous users get to see the default theme, which is set in config.php. That would be tricky to do and involve having a writable config.php file, which doesn't sound like a good idea from a security point of view ...
A more doable approach may be to write the admin's selection to the database (to, say, the gl_vars table) and then have a piece of custom code in lib-custom.php that pulls that out of the table again and sets $_USER['theme'] for anonymous users (for which it's not normally set). Not sure if that'll work, but I think it would. Now you only need to find someone implementing it ...
bye, Dirk
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Quote by spatz4000: I would need to add a column to the gl_vars table ( call it default_theme or something )?
A row, not a column. gl_vars is just a table of (name, value) pairs used for all sorts of things.
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Ahhhh yeah. It was early, ot late. Or something. Thanks agin 
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A row, not a column. gl_vars is just a table of (name, value) pairs used for all sorts of things.
bye, Dirk
4 Quote by spatz4000: I would need to add a column to the gl_vars table ( call it default_theme or something )?
A row, not a column. gl_vars is just a table of (name, value) pairs used for all sorts of things.
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again and sets $_USER['theme'] for anonymous users (for which it's not normally set). Not sure if that'll work, but I think it would. Now you only need to find someone implementing it ...
again and sets $_USER['theme'] for anonymous users (for which it's not normally set). Not sure if that'll work, but I think it would. Now you only need to find someone implementing it ...
How or where do I set $_USER['theme']? That's referencing gl_users in the database? or not?
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Okay. I have the database being written to, and I can also read from the database, the info I need. Where I am stuck is where, in what file do I need to set $_USER['theme']?
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Hmm, the anonymous users get to see the default theme, which is set in config.php. That would be tricky to do and involve having a writable config.php file, which doesn't sound like a good idea from a security point of view ...
A more doable approach may be to write the admin's selection to the database (to, say, the gl_vars table) and then have a piece of custom code in lib-custom.php that pulls that out of the table again and sets $_USER['theme'] for anonymous users (for which it's not normally set). Not sure if that'll work, but I think it would. Now you only need to find someone implementing it ...
bye, Dirk
Hmm, the anonymous users get to see the default theme, which is set in config.php. That would be tricky to do and involve having a writable config.php file, which doesn't sound like a good idea from a security point of view ...
A more doable approach may be to write the admin's selection to the database (to, say, the gl_vars table) and then have a piece of custom code in lib-custom.php that pulls that out of the table again and sets $_USER['theme'] for anonymous users (for which it's not normally set). Not sure if that'll work, but I think it would. Now you only need to find someone implementing it ...
bye, Dirk
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