Administration Theme

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 7:17 am

Just a a quick idea , But I'm looking forward to change the theme for the administration part.
The idea behind that is to have a different theme when you access admin.php , I know blocks can be removed via the themes/Your_Theme/theme.php , but the overall function is in mainfile.php

this is what I added in get_theme() ,

Code:

if ('ADMIN_FILE') $theme = 'Ravenice';

I tested this it works , but now I want to push it further , to control from the admin pannel rather than hardcoded.
in SQL added Admin_Theme in nuke_config
in mainfile.php

Code:

if ('ADMIN_FILE') $theme = '$Admin_Theme';

basicly I added a new language friendly field in settings , how can I recall this field in mainfile.php?

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In mainfile.php at/around lines 172,173, you will see this code which reads all the field/column names/values from the `config` table (settings) into the $nuke_config array.

Code:

$result = $db->sql_query("SELECT * FROM `".$prefix."_config` LIMIT 0,1");


$nuke_config = $db->sql_fetchrow($result);

In mainfile.php at/around lines 234-237 you will see examples of how to read the array values:

Code:

$sitename = $nuke_config['sitename'];


$nukeurl = $nuke_config['nukeurl'];


$site_logo = $nuke_config['site_logo'];


$slogan = $nuke_config['slogan'];


// etc.

So you would then access your new field value like this (note the change from what you had). This also assumes you have properly escaped the value and verified that the person is an admin. I leave that up to you Wink

if (is_admin($admin)) $theme = $nuke_config['Admin_Theme'];

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 9:26 am

Basically, bbtonuke should switch admin CP in the same theme-name templates automatically.

But there is no call ThemeSelect to bring up admin templates in phpnuke themes/forums/templates/YOUR-THEME-NAME.

very long time ago, we did in order to keep the template consistency. However, it was discarded.

IF you want, tell me to post the codes. I will find it from my backup.
However, it will ask you to add corresponding templates under modules/forums/templates folder.

As you see if you browse phpBB2 styles, some phpBB2 styles have their own admin templates, others not.

For instance, if your theme is fisubice, look at the phpBB2 template of fisubice (not modification by Daz for phpnuke) then you will find admin templates (I don't remember exactly).

Then, the change a couple of lines in default config file in bbtonuke (forums module) will bring up admin cp in corresponding templates.

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:26 am

Ok , thanks raven. I was looking somewhere else Very Happy

But what I was suggesting is that it only occurs in admin.php not when you are browsing as admin the rest of the CMS.