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Template Set vs Theme [message #5562]

Mon, 09 September 2002 15:58

holstein

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I'm just beginning to work in the Fud code to adapt a few things to my site.

I'm a bit confuse about the code layout, mainly with the theme/template set functionnality. Here is the things I don't quite understand correctly :

What is exactly the difference between a Template Set and and Theme?

Where are they store when they are created? I can see a (FUD_ROOT)/theme/my_theme and a (FUD_ROOT)/forum_data/thm/my_template_set. What are they both used for?

And, finally, say I want to modify the behavior of a part of my forum. Where should I do the modification? As I understand, I shoud edit :
(FUD_ROOT)/forum_data/src/ for modification that applies to all the theme/template set
and the above mentionned path for the template set and theme appliable modification.
Is that right? And if so, I still don't understand when I shoud modify the theme / template set files.
... Confused

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Re: Template Set vs Theme [message #5567 is a reply to message #5562]

Mon, 09 September 2002 17:33

Ilia

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A template set is essentially a seperate copy of the default set of templates. This copy contains the i18n/ and thm/ directories that contain the actual templatable data.
The src/ directory contains the source code responsible for the entire forum, the src/ directory is common for all templates.

The difference between between a theme & a template as is that a theme referes to any combination of a template set & a language. For example, default template set + french language. While the template set refers just to a particular set of templates representing a certain layout.

If you want to modify the layout it is recommended you make a new template set and then modify the files inside the that_template_set_name/thm/ that_template_set_name/i18n/

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Re: Template Set vs Theme [message #5569 is a reply to message #5567]

Mon, 09 September 2002 18:58

holstein

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Thanks, it's more clear now!

Quote:

If you want to modify the layout it is recommended you make a new template set and then modify the files inside the that_template_set_name/thm/ that_template_set_name/i18n/

And if I want to modify something in the logic of the code (say, I want to react to some event in the forum in my data set), am I right to think that I should modify the code in forum_data/src? Or is the code there used to make a copy in some files under template_set_name/thm ?

Thanks again!

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Re: Template Set vs Theme [message #5570 is a reply to message #5569]

Mon, 09 September 2002 19:00

Ilia

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Regardless of the theme all the source code will ALWAYS be found inside forum_data/src/, so if you want to make changed pertaining to the source code that is where you should make them.

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