Theme programming

vividona

Hi guys,

I am programming a simple script. I made my codes in css. then I called all my php codes from other folder to my index.php. Then I link my index.php page with this css directory (Themes/ default/style.css). It works fine, but I think it is very stupid way. I know some people use index.php and index.template.php files in theme folder.
but for me all I have in themes folder are only style.css, header and footer in theme folder.

Plz explain to me in general how can I make a theme. and how can I include it in my index.php page.

Krik

Well first is the issue of how you plan to apply the theme. Either and administrator will have to set the theme for all or each user will be able to select their theme. In either case logins and sessions will be needed.

After that that best way is a two fold process. First is to have all themes stored in the database with its corresponding directory. Second each directory must have the exact same files (file names). And when a user enters the site the site looks up what theme to use and hence finds the directory to retrieve files from.

vividona

Krik;10902314 wrote:
Well first is the issue of how you plan to apply the theme. Either and administrator will have to set the theme for all or each user will be able to select their theme. In either case logins and sessions will be needed.

After that that best way is a two fold process. First is to have all themes stored in the database with its corresponding directory. Second each directory must have the exact same files (file names). And when a user enters the site the site looks up what theme to use and hence finds the directory to retrieve files from.

Thank you Krik for help. Now I have the general idea. But plz explain about more:

Second each directory must have the exact same files (file names)

I am using only css. Do you mean the directory to css files???

Thank in advance again, Kirk

dalecosp

He's talking about visual resources (e.g. graphics), and about CSS files. A "theme" folder would exist for each theme that can be selected. This theme folder would contain one or more CSS files and images for headers, sidebars, backgrounds, whatever. Each element in a theme folder has a name, and the corresponding element in any other theme folder must also have the same name, so the script can call, for example, "/$path_to_theme_folder/header.png" and actually find the file there ;-)