Multi-Game Portal

rystan · Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:36 pm

Hello,

I run a gaming group community site and am trying to figure out the best method of integrating the different games into a single site. I've figured using groups would be one method, however I want to allow it so that a user can select which game he is playing (or his default from his profile) and it would change not only the Theme, but the default displayed news, forums, downloads and other modules. Of course the site default would be all shown with a standard theme. Would I do this by adding additional user variables that each module would then use to select its default display mode? Any thoughts/suggestions would be great. I've found I can create multiple copies of a module (i.e news) and change the sql to pull only a specific topic, removing the admin directory from it (central topic management from the original news module) and changing its directory name.

Looking at the code in the theme_preview block gives me some insight as to how to manage the multiple themes, its the rest that boggles me.

Thank you,

testy1 · Involved Joined: Apr 06, 2008 Posts: 483

first thing that pops to mind would be to use a custom profile in RNYA and then check for that.if the user has a particular game selected set the default_theme variable to this ......

just my initial thought on the them anyway

testy1 · Involved Joined: Apr 06, 2008 Posts: 483

not that I think about it, something like this may work for the theme

Code:

sql = 'select users game from custom profile';
if (user's game = this) {
$ThemeSel = 'theme for that game';
} else {
$ThemeSel = get_theme();
}

rystan · Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:01 pm

Thank you for the reply.

I'm lookin at that now. I'll reply again after I've slept and had a lot more coffee.