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Re: New User questions

ajshort — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:05:12 +1200

Hey again,

If you want to enable dynamic theme selection, you can add something like this in your mysite/_config.php:

if(isset($_REQUEST['theme'])){
SSViewer::set_theme($_REQUEST['theme']);
}

replacing

SSViewer::set_theme('blackcandy');

This will mean that if you visit

http://yoursite.com/page?theme=sometheme&flush=1

it will change the theme for you.

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Re: New User questions

stooni — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:13:28 +1200

Hello Anita,

you must enable the theme in \mysite\_config.php with these SSViewer::set_theme('higherground');

--- Stooni

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Re: New User questions

tinatoerat — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:09:22 +1200

Thanks for the reply aj.

More new user questions: I have recently been building a site in Drupal so my questions perhaps come from that experience.

Can I have more than one theme on my site? If I build a little test site and I want to test themes how do I do that?

I've downloaded some lovely themes from your list, but how do I enable one for my default site.

I checked out the help from the CMS, but when I searched "theme" nothing was returned.

Anita

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Re: New User questions

ajshort — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:34:41 +1200

Hi there,

Out of the box, SilverStripe does not have functionality for managing multiple sites from one installation. However, there is the subsites module which allows you to administer many sites from one installation (as the name suggests). However, I dont think it supports much beyond separate subsite database content - that is, all subsites would have the same visual style, and operate out of the same template files.

Therefore, I think the only way to achieve what your looking for is to create a new installation of SilverStripe in a different folder.

As for post previewing - not at the moment, but I think theres some work being done on the forum module as we speak, and this may be one of the new features.

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New User questions

tinatoerat — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:23:12 +1200

So, I've just installed Silverstripe, which, btw, my mind keeps calling Silverlight, and I installed using the blackcandy theme rather than the blank theme.

If I want to have a second site to follow the tutorial/do my own thing do I need to install silver~~light~~stripe again in a different folder/name, or does silverlight (really, I didn't mean that one) manage different sites from the one installation?

(Oh, and can I preview my forum post?)

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