[Pmwiki-users] skins
E. Duncan Scott
snark404
Sat Oct 2 13:11:39 CDT 2004
Did you see http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/SkinChange
I'm using that to switch between a couple of different skins. It
requires that you edit config.php to add a new skin, but could easily be
changed to create the array of skins from a listing in the /pub/skins
directory.
I just ignore the print action and use css to set up the printed page
(use media='print' in the stylesheet). For any other kind of
presentation I've just created a new skin, so I guess you could just
create a publish skin and reference a page to be published by
Main/HomePage?skin=publish. A long time ago I though it would be nice
to have every skin define a set of templates, but the current method is
a lot simpler and you don't really lose any functionality.
This works pretty well for me. I was actually pretty surprised that
this skinning functionality wasn't in the base install, but script works
just like it should.
~Duncan
P.S. I really like the templating system in PMWiki. It's great stuff.
Knut Alboldt wrote:
> I played around using different skins the last time (pmwiki 1) and found
> it somehow difficult to easily create new skin and switch the skin
> within the config.php and page-templates.
>
> What I suggest:
> All skins should have the same name for:
> - pagetemplate (e.g. display.tmpl)
> - printpagetemplate (e.g. print.tmpl)
> - publishedpagetemplate (e.g. publish.tmpl)
> with corresponding css-files (e.g. display.css, print.css etc)
> This would have two effords:
> 1) in the config.php you could define a Skin-Var (e.g. $WikiSkin)
> containing the skin-name = name of a dir in /pub/skins
> 2) in all page-template-files you can use the same css-references names
> so creating a new skin from the old one would be quite easily
>
> example:
> Now, if I want to create a new skin based on /pub/skins/pmwiki I've to
> copy the dir "pmwiki" to a new dir "newskin". That would only change the
> page-template. Then I've to configure $PageTemplateFmt and the
> references to the css-files im pmwiki.tmpl
> If I want to have a corresponding print or publish-template I've to copy
> from /pub/skins/print /pritn.tmpl e.g in /pub/skins/newskin/print.tmpl
> and again customize some vars.
>
> With the new proposal it would be only a copy of an existing skin-dir
> into a new skin dir with changing a pmwiki-var $WikiSkin, that's all.
> /pub/skins/print/ would be obsolete, the contents would be moved to
> /pub/skins/pmwiki
>
> For more convinience a few more variables should be set according to
> $WikiSkin:
> e.g. $SkinURL = $PubDirUrl/skins/$WikiSkin/ (for using in display.tmpl)
>
> PageTemplateFmt would be set to $SkinUrl/display.tmpl.
>
> Knut
>
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