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Summary:A skin entirely based on editable skin sections with a desktop-application like menu and php generated css files wich allows one to use a simple colorscheme.

Version:

Prerequisites:

Status:Experimental

Maintainer:Benjamin ?

Categories: CMS Skins

Questions answered by this recipe

Skin Sections: I need a flexible skin entierly bases on editable skin sections. Every skin section is a wiki page.
CSS: I would like to define a color scheme consists of maybe 3 colors. The color definitions of the color scheme can be applied to all css files i want to use.
Desktop-Application like Menu: I would like to have access to all actions and config options at the same place. So I want a menu wich stays fixed at the top of the webpage.

Description

A skin entirely based on editable skin sections with a desktop-application like menu and php generated css files wich allows one to use a simple colorscheme.

Tryout a demo on http://test.netstreams.org/skin. Login/Password is Author/test or Admin/test.

September 27, 2008 - The above demo url yields a 404 error.

Installation

Download the package listed below and copy it into your pmwiki directory.
Copy the sample config file doc/netstreams/sample-config_menu.php into /local/config.php or use it as sample to update your config.php file.

Customization

Skin Sections

You can show/hide skin sections either by markup or via page text variables. Using ptv's allows to set a value for the entire site, a group or a page. Group setting overwrite site settings, page settings overwrite group settings. The values are:

Setting	Value
default	no value
show	1
hide	0

List of Skin Sections:

Name	Markup	PTV Site	PTV Group	PTV Page
Menu	(:nomenu:)¹	site_Menu¹	group_Menu¹	page_Menu¹
Header	(:noheader:)	site_Header	group_Header	page_Header
Navigation	(:nonavigation:)	site_Navigation	group_Navigation	page_Navigation
LeftBar	(:noleft:)	site_LeftBar	group_LeftBar	page_LeftBar
RightBar	(:noright:)	site_RightBar	group_RightBar	page_RightBar
Footer	(:nofooter:)	site_Footer	group_Footer	page_Footer

1) not enabled

CSS

Colorscheme

To create your own colorscheme, copy the docs/netsreams/netstreams_colorscheme.php to local/netstreams_colorscheme.php and change it to your needs.

Additional css files

Copy the docs/netsreams/local/cssfilepaths.php to local/cssfilepaths.php and add the paths of your css files to the array.
Use the template below for css files

CSS Template:

<?php 
return<<<EOF

//your css definitions here, example:
a { color:$CS_baseA }

EOF;
?>

Notes

This is a experimental release. Suggestions and bug reports are very welcome.

Release Notes

Initial release:

Contributors

Benjamin ?

NetstreamsSkin