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Petrikuhr
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needs a little work but so far so good

I was trying to figure out how to put a theme changer in the footer of my site, was more than a little weird seeing as I'm so terrible with coding but 'google' is your friend as they say.

once I had it working okay I wondered why OCPortal doesn't have one already, seems like it should to me, but I aint no coder and I have no idea to make it automatically add new links as and when new theme get installed on the site. Presently I have to add new themes manually, not a big deal for me but if anything for OCPortal should ideally function automatically.

Thought I would toss it in the pot for others to consider, perhaps the dev's could consider it too.

Any way, this is my hack attempt at making a theme changer, no laughing, I know it's crude but I am quite pleased with it myself.

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<div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function goToSelected()
        {
            window.location = document.getElementById('pmenu').value;
        }
    </script>
    <select name="PDropdown Menu" id="pmenu">
        <option selected="selected" value="">Select</option>
        <option value="index.php?keep_theme=Rock_Babe">Rock Babe</option>
        <option value="index.php?keep_theme=default">Default</option>
    </select>

    <input type="submit" value="Change Theme" id="button" onclick="goToSelected();" />
</div>


You can see it on my site, it only sends you to the default theme at the moment, I haven't added the code to the default theme as I don't want to change anything there for upgrade purposes, but it works!
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Thanks for sharing this code, Petrikuhr!

It works great!
I see your point though, about the inconvenience of having it hard coded for each new theme.

I was trying to find how ocPortal does it with the theme changer in the "Edit profile", but I can't find its template and the "Show template edit links" does not seem to work on that page.
This might be a good source to look for.

Love how you keep pursuing interesting angles!:thumbs:
Jean
 
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Heya Jean,
oddly I cannot find a theme selector in the edit profile, not here or on my own site, I have looked for a setting I must have missed but haven't found anything!
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Petrikuhr said

Heya Jean,
oddly I cannot find a theme selector in the edit profile, not here or on my own site, I have looked for a setting I must have missed but haven't found anything!


Ah yes, it is not there by default…I forgot about that!;)

To activate this feature, do the following:

Admin Zone » Structure » Zones » Choose » Edit zone (do this for the zones where you want to allow members to change themes)

For the Theme options: Select "Respect member settings"

Note: The viewing member must have access to view these themes (by default any new theme does have full access)

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Ah-ha, now that helps immensely, reckon I found the template, FORM_SCREEN_FIELD.tpl, now I just got to figure out how it works!

~~~~~~~~~~~~ edited ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hmmmmmm, seems I am jumping the gun a little here, my search results say I need to be looking in one of these:
    » default/templates/CHAT_SET_EFFECTS_SETTING_BLOCK.tpl
    » default/templates/FORM_SCREEN_FIELD.tpl
    » default/templates/FORM_SCREEN_INPUT_HUGE.tpl
    » default/templates/FORM_SCREEN_INPUT_HUGE_COMCODE.tpl
    » default/templates/FORM_SCREEN_INPUT_HUGE_LIST.tpl

I'm looking in them now and it might as well be written in Martian for all I care, I have no idea what these templates are going on about!

~~~~~~~~~~~ edited ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Okay, further deduction, FORM_SCREEN_INPUT_HUGE_LIST.tpl is the one that has a 'select' thingie going on so I am going to go with that one for now, just wish I had a clue what it was saying is all! :(

Not liking your silence Chris, I bet you knew straight away which template we had to find huh!


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ edited ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Right then, so it doesn't seem to be any of those listed above, I don't have a clue now!


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To be honest I don't think there is a way to do this without PHP code. The PHP code for profile editing feeds a template with a list of themes, but that data is not available for a template to ask for.


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Ahhhh, hence the silence from you then Chris, was wondering if you were seeing how close we got before you did the "tut-tut, it's this template dopey".

Well that really is me scuppered, php is a no go for me, it all just looks like a load of nonesnse to me. Oh well, guess I'll be sticking to manual imput, no biggie for me to be honest.

I'll just slide off and play some more in photoshop. ;)
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I'm afraid nowadays lack of time means I tend to have to home in on a few keywords, to find stuff which are clearly bug reports. General questions, I don't tend to even think about them actually. Wish I could, but not really something I can fit in.

The other thing is I just found out today I have to get glasses, I've been suffering really bad eye strain for months which has left me feeling like I had flu for 1-2 days a week over the last half year :sick:. Turns out one eye is short-sighted and the other long-sighted, and combined with my big shiny mac screen, was really giving me severe ocular problems. Hopefully going forward I'll be back to my old self ;).


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well you are not the only one I"am afraid….. I have no big monitor, but it helped to get new glasses…  ;)
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Yeah. I realise now how ordinary it is, but because I always had perfect vision (still have better than 20-20 vision), it's not something I've ever had cause to think about. I just thought I had a weakened immune system somehow, so I was doing exercises, looking at my diet, etc. Never crossed my mind it would be an eye thing, could have saved myself a lot of pain if I had!


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Glad you had it attended to. I'm surprised you didn't get horrendous headaches with the concurrent near-sighted/far-sighted bit. It'a amazing how well the brain tries to compensate for these factors but it so often leads to nasty headaches.

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Chris Graham said

Turns out one eye is short-sighted and the other long-sighted
Take care of those eyes, Chris.

I suffer the exact same nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in the other. My eye doc says very few people are both Myopia and Hyperopia. I also suffer from astigmatism and a cataract.
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