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Forum Error on Published Site


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BruceG

Community Member, 29 Posts

27 February 2009 at 11:43am

I received the following when trying to view a forum on the published site.

Fatal error: Call to undefined method Controller::currentcontroller() in D:\wamp\www\SilverStripe-v2.3.0\forum-v0.1.2\code\Forum.php on line 155

I see there's a new forum module under development. Is this due out soon? Maybe this will resolve my problem if I wait for it.

Cheers
Bruce

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

27 February 2009 at 2:40pm

Hey Bruce, Try the RC. It is pretty stable with SilverStripe 2.3. These forums are running it, we just haven't got round to releasing it as stable yet.

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BruceG

Community Member, 29 Posts

27 February 2009 at 4:08pm

Thanks Will

That seems to work.

If I wanted to set up a customised Forum holder and forum pages (layouts, colour, positioning, spacing etc) what's the best way to go about that?
Is there a tutorial to explain this procedure?

Bruce

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

27 February 2009 at 5:26pm

If its all just css/ html changes then you can copy forum/templates forum/css forum/images to yourthemename_forum/*

So you should have

themes/yourtheme_forum/css/
themes/yourtheme_forum/images/
themes/yourtheme_forum/templates

Now you can edit away at the files in yourtheme_forum! without touching on the forum/ folder

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BruceG

Community Member, 29 Posts

27 February 2009 at 5:52pm

Thanks Will

I'll have a crack
It all sounds so simple - if only I knew what I was doing???

Regards
Bruce

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

28 February 2009 at 2:51pm

Basically you can override the default theme by defining your own custom theme. Eg if you installed with the BlackCandy theme the theme is stored in themes/blackcandy. Now when you add a module it first looks for its templates, images and css from themes/blackcandy_forum as blackcandy is the current theme. If that does not exist it uses the default styles in forum/.

So if you want to override any default styles (this covers the templates in sapphire and cms as well as any modules) you just need to create a yourcurrenttheme_modulename folder and place the files in there. This is whats known as a subtheme.