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  Posted: Sep 19, 2002 - 11:57 PM

  What about the ability to "cron" (schedule) postnuke themes?
  
  With the same concept as the 'cron' commander under *unix OSes, the admin would be able to schedule themes based on a special date, season, even time!
  
  For example, a site could have a christmas time theme, a summer holydays theme, easter, passover, Iom Kipur, Ramadam, whatever...
  
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  Posted: Sep 20, 2002 - 05:40 AM

  I wouldn't use it personally. Some people might find it useful, why not have it as a module?

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  Posted: Sep 25, 2002 - 10:28 PM

  Well, could be as a module... no problem! Basically, I could even write a little shell script that would change the mySQL field for the default theme to be ran at an specific time.
  
  The point is that not everyone have a shell access... I do like the idea of having shell scripting support for postnuke as a power user feature... but since the PostNuke approach for postnuke is to have a 100% frontend(web) admin features, it will be better to have this feature as a module...

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  Posted: Sep 27, 2002 - 01:34 AM

  I'm thinking that most users wouldn't use this, even though I think it's a neat idea.
  
  Terry

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  Posted: Sep 27, 2002 - 08:28 AM

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  I'm thinking that most users wouldn't use this, even though I think it's a neat idea.

  
  
  This is a means for those who run multi-themed sites to automatically change the theme based on date.. Say using XPZone-USA (for patriotic days), XPZone-Camo (for day that remember the US military), so on and so forth..
  
  If this does become a module - I would definately use it..

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  Posted: Sep 29, 2002 - 07:58 PM

  I was thinking that the theme support could be modularised, then it would add a new icon in the admin menu for themes.
  
  There the admin could select:
  
  :arrow: Enable/disable users theme selection (the icon in the my account menu).
  :arrow: Which themes would be available for users. For example, I might be interested in having a christmas theme, but this would be only selected by me (the admin). The users couldn't select it from the theme list. Usefull for themes that would be available only for scheduled dates. The admin would be presented with a list of all the themes and from there he could set which themes would be available for each user group, which theme would be the default for each group, etc. Usefull also if I want to have a different theme for anonymous or admin users.
  :arrow: Theme schedule manager. To schedule themes on special dates such as Christmas themes, 4th July, Queen's Jubilee, Guybrush's birthday, etc. :)
  :arrow: In the future, maybe the admin could even upload a theme from the admin menu and it would be installed automatically?

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  Posted: Sep 29, 2002 - 11:54 PM

  Make your own damn "cron" and put in a mysql statement to alter the default theme. Simple enough.

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  Posted: Sep 30, 2002 - 03:02 AM

  Wise, very wise... If you read one of my previous post, you would know that I've done this already.
  
  Anyway, cron doesn't help with the other features

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  Posted: Oct 01, 2002 - 04:54 AM

  Wow, rude comment Strat!
  
  I definately support the idea of being able to select which themes can be selected by the user. I sometimes upload a theme to check it out and I've had users select them... frustrating. Also, I had themes used in Category Override that people were using as their default.
  
  Another idea is to ALWAYS allow admins to change their theme, even when "Allow User To Override Default Theme" is turned off in settings.
  
  My $.02

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