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Issue regarding the admin panel


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duskydesigns

Community Member, 15 Posts

13 January 2011 at 8:24am

Hi all,

I have just discovered Silverstripe and i love the CMS in favor to ModX. I have a problem though wich i need to fix but am unsure how. All the content is made up in XML so it can be used in Flash. However because of this, i am unable to log in in the admin side because it uses the same theme. How do i change the admin theme or isn't there a way to change it?

Greets,

Kenneth

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apiening

Community Member, 60 Posts

13 January 2011 at 11:52am

hi kenneth,

the cms/admin shouldn't be affected by changes to the theme a great deal and should remain accessible. can you describe the approach you took to switch to xml?

cheers

andy

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duskydesigns

Community Member, 15 Posts

13 January 2011 at 12:19pm

Edited: 13/01/2011 12:20pm

Thanks for the quick reply!

Well i copied the default theme, blackcandy and changed the Page.ss and map Layout > Page.ss. Also changed the map name to "xml", as that was the theme. The extension i added "blog" is hard themed, meaning that i changed the template files to reflect the theme (blog didn't have theme files so had to do it this way)

This could be miscommunication, the actual back-end of the admin is fine (/admin). The part that lets you log in, the input fields and such get screwed up because i changed it all to xml. So basically as long as i am logged in its okay but as soon as i have to log in it gets impossible due to the fact that the default them is now xml output wich doesn't give me fields or a way to log in to the admin part.

Basically what i need is for the log in part of the theme to be "normal", i don't really know how to do this (maybe could be changed in the pagecontroller?).

Hope you can help! Thanks for reading.

Greets,

Kenneth

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apiening

Community Member, 60 Posts

13 January 2011 at 12:48pm

first idea that springs to mind is a switch in the mysite/_config.php a la http://localhost/silverstripe/Security/login?output=html:

if(isset($_GET['output']) && $_GET['output'] == 'html') {
    SSViewer::set_theme('blackcandyhtml');
} else {
    SSViewer::set_theme('blackcandy');
}

(untested)

btw: you can override templates in blog/templates by just creating files with the same name in the themes/blackcandy/templates folder. this way when you update blog you don't override your custom templates (don't forget to ?flush=all ;)

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martimiz

Forum Moderator, 1391 Posts

13 January 2011 at 11:19pm

Edited: 13/01/2011 11:20pm

I've no idea if this will actually work, but maybe in _config.php: Security::template_main = 'PageHTML'; and then define a PageHTML.ss as your HTML version of the template?

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duskydesigns

Community Member, 15 Posts

28 January 2011 at 12:36am

Update on the fix, the output thingy didnt work but the pageHTML worked great

just added

Security::$template_main = 'PageHTML';

to mysite/_config.php

and after that it was just updating layout with a pageHTML and a general pageHTML.ss

thanks for the help guys!