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[eric creemers Friend eric creemersJoin date: October 2009Posts: 2Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#145883

I’m trying to get switching colors to work.

On the ja_tube demo site there are these links:

?ja_color=blue
?ja_color=red
?ja_color=green

etc.

But when I try to do this, it does not change color at all, just stay default.

In the template parameters, the tooltip @ ‘Default style’ says i can enable style switcher, but working with joomla 1.5, I cannot find this switcher. Have googled for hours and read other posts in this forum, but havn’t found a solution.

What I am trying to do with my site is to give each category a different color layout, so I want to add this “ja_color=red” to my menu links. But even the default color-links, after installing the quickstart folder, do not work.

I cannot give you a demo site, but installing quickstart + Joomla_1.5.14-Stable-Full_Package gives your default ja_tube site:

http://template15.joomlart.com/ja_tube/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22&Itemid=56

Only without working style switcher.

Please help

Thnx

[prakash Friend prakashJoin date: October 2008Posts: 439Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 146 times in 115 posts]

#323208

Hi

I do not know how to do it the “right way” but I have a small patch by which the styling change works.

find this line in templates/jatube/index.php

<link href="<?php echo $tmpTools->templateurl(); ?>/css/colors/<?php echo strtolower ($tmpTools->getParam(JA_TOOL_COLOR)); ?>.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />


and replace it with this

<?php $getthecolor = $_GET['ja_color']; if ($getthecolor == NULL) { ?>
<link href="<?php echo $tmpTools->templateurl(); ?>/css/colors/<?php echo strtolower ($tmpTools->getParam(JA_TOOL_COLOR)); ?>.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<?php } else {?>
<link href="<?php echo $tmpTools->templateurl(); ?>/css/colors/<?php echo strtolower ($getthecolor); ?>.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<?php }?>

now by default, the default color which you have set in template parameters will be shown, but if you want to change color of a particular page – simply pass the ?ja_color… and the color will change

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1. eric creemers

[eric creemers Friend eric creemersJoin date: October 2009Posts: 2Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#323249

Thank you for the code. Didn’t though of it to $_GET the variable. Very simple.

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