aeolwind
Newbie   Posts: 7 Registered: 3/17/2007 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/17/2007 at 08:42 PM |
I just purchased AutoTheme & decided to play around with it to get more
comfortable. Well, I decided to just edit the basic theme, this horribly
ugly green and purple lima bean explosion to a basic black and white.
After adjusting the settings and saving, nothing changed. I double checked
my chmod settings and everything there seems to be correct. I'm not
getting any output errors either. Anyone else run into this problem?
Sadly, I didn't notice a forum search to try to locate my answers.
Using phpNuke 7.9np
[Edited on 18/3/2007 by aeolwind]
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aeolwind
Newbie Posts: 7 Registered: 3/17/2007 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/17/2007 at 09:24 PM |
Even when trying to create a new theme from scratch it won't change the
appearance. Am I missing some mystical way of holding my tongue to make it
work??
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Shawn
Administrator   Posts: 4570 Registered: 10/7/2002 Status: Online
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posted on 3/17/2007 at 10:18 PM |
1. What settings did you adjust.
2. You created a new theme from scratch and then switched to that them and
nothing changed?
-Shawn
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aeolwind
Newbie Posts: 7 Registered: 3/17/2007 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/17/2007 at 11:22 PM |
I changed the chmod settings on the listed files in the user guide to
777.
Server is down for maintenance at the moment, but the site can be viewed
here, http://www.farcryguild.com
point 2: yes, I created a new theme from example, changed up the colors,
left the rest at the basic for the moment till I get my feet wet & it
was still the basic example theme. I also copied the AutoTheme theme and
tried modifying it to no avail.
Any assistance is appreciated, thanks!
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Shawn
Administrator Posts: 4570 Registered: 10/7/2002 Status: Online
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posted on 3/18/2007 at 09:28 AM |
OK so the theme you're using is called "farcry" and seems to be a copy of
AutoTheme Open the farcry/theme.html in the HTML editor and type FARCRY at
the top and save it.
Also, just in case this is the problem, just because you set the site theme
to a specific theme doesn't mean that you'll see that theme when your
loggedin. You may need to log out or set your theme from Your_Account.
-Shawn
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aeolwind
Newbie Posts: 7 Registered: 3/17/2007 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/18/2007 at 11:02 AM |
Where do I enter this? What HTML Tags go around it?
The only thing that says autotheme in the upper part of the html is the
title.
& currently, the colors for that site are supposed to be white and
black according to the theme adjustment.
Consequently, I was able to edit the HTML just for kicks and it worked.
Why is it not pulling the color information?
[Edited on 18/3/2007 by aeolwind]
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Shawn
Administrator Posts: 4570 Registered: 10/7/2002 Status: Online
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posted on 3/18/2007 at 11:26 AM |
The colors in the admin are only for the colors that are used internally by
some nuke modules. If you view some modules like Your_Account, Statistics,
and many more, you will see that they are using the colors that you
specified. They use them for backgrounds, table borders, etc... The
colors of the theme itsself are changed in the template or in the css
stylesheet for the theme.
-Shawn
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aeolwind
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posted on 3/18/2007 at 11:49 AM |
Ahh, then this software doesn't do what I wanted then ><.
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Shawn
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posted on 3/18/2007 at 03:47 PM |
What did you want?
-Shawn
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aeolwind
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posted on 3/18/2007 at 04:10 PM |
Basically, an easier way to control the theme across a site than editing
css and html files. A more intuitive system so to speak. I'd assumed from
the description that this software would but it doesn't. Live and
learn. Hard to believe that after 8 revisions of phpNuke alone, there
hasn't been a module made that does this; Priced or Priceless.
I can code html in my sleep, but in so far, php has eluded me. I'm more
disappointed with the php cms systems than anything I think, compared to
html and a style sheet it seems clumsy & overpromised/under-delivered.
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Shawn
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posted on 3/18/2007 at 06:17 PM |
Huh? Easier than editing HTML? You can't do that in PHP-Nuke. If you can
code HTML in your sleep then this is just the system, and gives you
ultimate power besides.
If all you want is to change all the colors in the theme when you chnage
them in the admin, then that is very simple and not very useful, but hey
I'll tell you how:
Edit the theme.html and replace the color values like #99CC00 with the
commands from AutoTheme, such as color1 is the same as Background Color 1
from admin and color2 is the same as Background Color 2 from admin, etc...
(see the User Guide for the list)
So now, you can go into the admin and change Background Color 1 in the
admin from #D4E1AE to #FFFFFF and all of the bright green in the crappy
AutoTheme theme will become white.
Seems like a very simple use of AutoTheme to take my crappy theme and just
change colors in the admin, but whatever you want it can do it. :-)
-Shawn
[Edited on 3/18/2007 by Shawn]
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aeolwind
Newbie Posts: 7 Registered: 3/17/2007 Status: Offline
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posted on 3/18/2007 at 08:02 PM |
That is the bit of info I was looking for. It appeared that the variables
were called globally, but I didn't realize the main colors were hardcoded
into the html. I didn't look since I thought I'd borked the install. As
far as just reskinning your theme, I was more or less trying looking more
at basic functionality. I'd assumed that the styles & html were built
the way you described below (already tied to the admin panel). I also
assumed I'd fubar'd the install so I didn't quite make it that far down in
the manual; step 2 wasn't working so checking step 3 was right out! Like I
said, I'm a PHP idiot. My biggest issue is finding the right file
to modify. As I have proven here 
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