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To theme or not to theme...
12 March 2009 at 2:20am Last edited: 12 March 2009 2:43am
... that is the question.
In my first SS project I kept all of the site View in MySite. However I notice the auto-install uses the themes folder in root. Should I be using this theme folder, and then applying my customizations in MySite/templates ? What are the advantages/disadvantages to this.
I'm interested in the communities general approach to this and what YOU use for your structure of templates & themes.Is there a standard? Do you find it more organized or efficient to use the themes dir?
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Re: To theme or not to theme...
12 March 2009 at 6:06pm
If you're pretty sure you'll only need the one theme then there is no reason you can't keep it in mysite, but I prefer to use the themes dir for views and mysite for the code.
Basically, that just means that if I want to develop an alternative theme, it's really easy to have them co-living in the themes folder. When it comes time to switch them over, it's a single line in the config. It also means you can have multiple themes for different people (eg, different member groups, or user-selectable themes).
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Re: To theme or not to theme...
13 March 2009 at 1:59am
Ok thanks for the response - I sort of expected this.
I am interested though, in what you mention about "It also means you can have multiple themes for different people (eg, different member groups, or user-selectable themes).". Does Silver Stripe Naively support a shared codebase model for multiple clients? For example in root I could have mysite, myfriendSite, myotherFriendSite and all benefit from the same code. To make this work I suppose you would simply need to control the domain 301 inside .htaccess, does this sound right?
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