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• geoff
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 12, 2009 - 01:05 AM

  Does anyone know how to programmically change a theme in a module?
  
  Once apon a time you could just set $theme = "themename"; but that does not appear to work any more.
  
  Any ideas would be warmly welcomed
  
  Thanks

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• nestormateo
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 12, 2009 - 09:23 AM

  It still works, but you musy enable the "Let the users to switch the theme" in the Theme admin panel
  
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• geoff
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 13, 2009 - 12:12 AM

  Thanks nestormateo,
  
  Is there a way of changing the theme for a page without enabling the users to change their themes?
  
  For example, a module where a particular user function uses the, say, SeaBreeze theme. But all other - default - functions use the system default.
  
  I know you can also just place &theme=name in the URL as well. But that is not what I am after. It is visible to the end user.
  
  There must be an easy way to assign/override the theme via code.
  
  Essentially what I want to do is print out a packing slip and invoice for a semi-ecommerce module. I don't want to use the "Printer" theme because it is the wrong format. And I don't want to change it as it is a core theme and doing so will effect other modules that use it.
  
  The other idea I had was looking at the domain.com/Printer redirect....

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• geoff
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 13, 2009 - 12:22 AM

  Looking at the htmlpages module, there is an option to display the printable version
  
  

  • http://domain.com/htmlpages/display/pid/1
    

  
  
  becomes
  
  

  • http://domain.com/Printer/htmlpages/display/pid/1
    

  
  The insertion of the "Printer", uses the Printer theme.
  
  Infact, all enabled themes can be used here in that format
  
  

  • http://domain.com/themename/module/function.....
    

  
  
  Of course turning OFF short URLs gives from above
  
  

  • http://domain.com/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=1&theme=Printer
    

  
  
  So this works.
  
  BUT!!!!! It requires the theme to be written in the URL - not be programmically decided by in program logic.
  
  There should be a function like themeengine::settheme("themename")!

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• Charlie-otb
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 13, 2009 - 01:18 AM

  Make a Modul-Specific Template .
  Look here:http://community.zikula.org/index.php?module=Wiki&tag=TemplateOverridng
  
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  regards from germany
  
  High Quality Postnuke + Zikula Themes

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• geoff
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 13, 2009 - 02:09 AM

  Ooooh! Very interesting.
  
  However, this is a template override - not a full theme override. It will still use the existing theme and just change the template (ie the [!--[$content]--] part of the theme). I want to keep the template and change the theme.
  
  The stylesheet option is a possibility, but again, that does not change the theme layout (ie. blocks, header, footer).
  
  Nice idea though - thank you.
  
  What I really need is to be able to set a given theme for a given function - maybe even selecting a from choice of themes.
  
  We could do this once - all news of topic "News" was RedTheme - topic "Events" was BlueTheme. etc...
  
  Maybe that is where I need to look... can it still be done in the new Categories modules??
  
  The other thing I notice - completely on a tangent - is that the theme style sheets should come after the module style sheets. Since theme are the definitive end result.......
  
  
  
  edited by: geoff, datetimebrief

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• Arthens
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 13, 2009 - 08:02 AM

  You can create different layouts within the same theme and assign them to different modules/sections. e.g. most theme have a home.htm for the homepage and a master.htm for the other pages, you can do the same thing for each module/function
  
  Go to Layout -> themes -> edit -> page configuration
  you can create as many different layout as you want
  
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• nestormateo
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 13, 2009 - 04:11 PM

  I thought in the same way that Arthens
  but that would imply to support different "styles" in the same theme.
  Are you thinking on change the layout drastically to need a complete different theme?
  
  I'll check the core code to see if there's such possibility
  if not, we should have it for 1.3
  
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