Quick question. I know that there is a way of customising the CMS' appearance. I also know there is a forum post and a Wiki page about this, but I have been completely unable to find either.

Could anyone point me to these?

Cheers,

Mo

Hi Mo

Great work on the dashboard module, I look forward to using it on my next project :)

here is the doc's page you are looking for: http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=recipes:rebranding-the-cms

It's not particularly extensive though.

I recently did a pretty extensive CSS rejig of the CMS by decorating LeftandMian with a new CSS requirement. That way you can do it from a module rather than having to edit the core files.

So I had a file called UIDecorator.php and it contained:

class UIDecorator extends LeftAndMainDecorator  {

	function init() {

		Requirements::CSS("lite_UI/css/lite_ui.css");
		
	}

}

then in the config file I added:

Object::add_extension('LeftAndMain', 'UIDecorator');

That then let me override all of the styles in cms/css

You could also add your JS files requirements in there for some jquery modal window stuff as per your other post.

Hope that helps :)

Aram

Oh cool, thanks Aram. This will be really helpful.

Quick question though, I thought classes that are used via Object::add_extension() had to extend the Extension class?

hmm, not sure I entirely follow :s

The LeftAndMainDecorator class is an inbuilt class specially for extending LeftAndMain in this way......I don't really know much more than that :)

Oh right, I image that is fine then. I just know I got an error the other day, I think i was doing something like:

class someclass extends ContentControler {
    ...
}

The error told me it should be:

class someclass extends Extension {
    ...
}

But that was probably just in that instance, so never mind :)