Theme Debaucle.

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WakkaWakka
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Theme Debaucle.

Post by WakkaWakka »

This is hard to describe but I'll do my best.

The gradient images on our site keep disappearing. cellpic2.gif cellpic1 cellpic_rtl cellpic3 ....

They are defined in: ACP > Styles > Themes > Edit

By default, the path is apparently wrong. By default the path says: images/cellpic1.gif
I have had to manually change it to the full path: /interact/styles/hlt/theme/images three times now.

Inevitably, a few days later, I see the images are missing again, and I go into: ACP > Styles > Themes > Edit and I see the path is back to (images/cellpic1.gif)

What file am I editing exactly? And why does it keep getting overwritten?

Something is wrong here.
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WakkaWakka
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Re: Theme Debaucle.

Post by WakkaWakka »

I just now found that the font changes I made to the site are also gone.

Pretty much anything I edit in: ACP > Styles > Themes > Edit

Eventually gets overwritten somehow.

Yet I still have no idea what *file* this edit screen is editing, nor why it seems to repeatedly get overwritten.

Help.

kmklr72
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Re: Theme Debaucle.

Post by kmklr72 »

If you edit the theme through the ACP, then it get stored in the database from what I remember. The only way to make things permanent is to edit the files themselves with a decent text editor.

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Re: Theme Debaucle.

Post by Lumpy Burgertushie »

true, you must use a ftp program to download the relevant files to your computer.

use a decent text editor to edit them. ( notepad++ or crimson editor or editpad lite are just a few ).

make sure whatever you use, saves the files as text using UTF8 and no BOM ( byte order mark ).

then upload them back to where they belong.

then you MUST always clear the cache folder after every edit ( except for the index.htm and .htaccess files ) before you can see the changes.


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Re: Theme Debaucle.

Post by WakkaWakka »

Yes if we knew the file we would just edit that.

But above I mentioned twice, we don't know what file it is.

What file is this?

ACP > Styles > Themes > Edit

WakkaWakka
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Re: Theme Debaucle.

Post by WakkaWakka »

Anyone?

griffinmt
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Re: Theme Debaucle.

Post by griffinmt »

The 'file' you are editting from the ACP is actually a field by the name of 'theme_data' in the table 'xxx_styles_theme'. There is a row for each available theme, so make sure you get the correct row if you are doing this manually.

Near as I can gather, this originally comes from a composite of some of the .css files in the themes folder for the applicable style.

I did it this way: used phpMyAdmin to edit the row, selexted and copied the mediumtext field, pasted to my text editor. Then I made my changes, saved it as a file for future reference, then selected, copied the content and re-pasted into the phpMyAdmin field before saving the row.

So far, it has not reverted back.
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Re: Theme Debaucle.

Post by WakkaWakka »

Nightmare.

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Re: Theme Debaucle.

Post by WakkaWakka »

Exactly *WHAT* causes my changes to get overwritten?

And what kind of absurd set up is it to have an editor in the ACP that routinely gets all its changes erased by some other function?

Why even have it there, if something could possibly overwrite it?

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