hack: template-switcher PP V1.6

[werksmannschaft]

hi,

the last days i created an ADDON to switch between templates (not styles within a template)

if someone else did this before, just forget it ;-)

to made this work i hacked the index.php in the root directory:

1. Step:
search $cfgrow['template'] and replace with $_SESSION["template"]

2. Step:
insert after the session_start();

if ($_POST['newtemplate']) {
$_SESSION["template"]=$_POST['newtemplate'];
}

3. step:
insert before if ($cfgrow['markdown'] == 'T')

if (!$_SESSION["template"]) {
$_SESSION["template"]=$cfgrow['template'];
}

4.step
create an addon.
i named it style_addon.php in the addon-folder

<?php
/*
Pixelpost version 1.6
style_addon version 0.11
    Author  : gerd reuter <http://www.werksmannschaft.de>
    free to use an modify, no guarantee

The new tag to use in template-switcher are
<STYLE_ADDON>
*/

$addon_name = "style addon";
$addon_description = "will change template";
$addon_version = "0.1";

$style_action=$REQUEST_URI;

$actstyle=$_SESSION["template"];
$style_addon="";
$style_addon.="
		<div id='styleselect'><form method='post' name='stylechange' action='$style_action' accept-charset='UTF-8'>
		style <select name='newtemplate' onchange='submit();'>
		<option value='".$actstyle."'>".$actstyle."</option>
		";
		// go through template folder
		$temp_dir = "templates";
		if($style_handle = opendir($temp_dir)) {
			while (false !== ($temp_file = readdir($style_handle))) {
				if($temp_file != "." && $temp_file != ".." && $temp_file != "splash_page.html" && $temp_file != "index.html" && $temp_file != $actstyle) {
					$style_addon.= "<option value='$temp_file'>$temp_file</option>";
					}
				}
			closedir($style_handle);
			}
		$style_addon.= "
		</select>
		</form></div>
";

$tpl = str_replace("<STYLE_ADDON>",$style_addon,$tpl);

?>

5. change EVERY of your xxx.html files in your template-folders.
and add the <STYLE_ADDON> wherever you want to your code.

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[Dennis+]

Nice, but I feel this can be done without hacking the core files. Let alone renaming a config variable.

Why don't you just set the $cfgrow variable to the session variable? That is one way of not renaming stuff in the index.

[Scarabaeus]

I would be great if someone created an addon like this, especially for template designers as all traffic could go to one actual used blog rather than demo sites.

[fredxeric]

this will be nice for addon creator... cool stuff

[xact]

Hell yeah - I'm gonna use this !!

Does this work on pp 1.7.1?

LE. I tried and it's working. I'm going to do some playin' around with it..


LLE. How can I use this hack with link to each template I want instead of drop-list?

[fredxeric]

I just did the hack and it is working smootly.... wow

[kevincrafts]

You can put the following code after session_start(); (instead of what was posted earlier) and it will allow you to specify the template in a link to your pixelpost site:

if ($_POST['newtemplate']) {
$_SESSION["template"]=$_POST['newtemplate'];
} else if ($_GET['newtemplate'])  {
$_SESSION["template"]=$_GET['newtemplate'];
}

so they you can go like this:

http://www.yoursitehere.com/?newtemp...ameoftemplate1

http://www.yoursitehere.com/?newtemp...ameoftemplate2

http://www.yoursitehere.com/?newtemp...ameoftemplate3

[GeoS+]

I would watch out for such insecure code:

PHP Code:

if ($_POST['newtemplate']) {
$_SESSION["template"]=$_POST['newtemplate'];
} else if ($_GET['newtemplate'])  {
$_SESSION["template"]=$_GET['newtemplate'];
} 


I would do that like this:

PHP Code:

if ($_POST['newtemplate']) {
$_SESSION["template"]=$_POST['newtemplate'];
} else if ($_GET['newtemplate'])  {
$_SESSION["template"]=$_GET['newtemplate'];
}

if(!is_dir("templates/".$_SESSION["template"])) $_SESSION["template"]=$cfgrow['template']; 


[Dkozikowski+]

I can create an addon but it would still require a hack to index.php

If anyone is interested I'll throw something together

[EcoSee]

I would love a good addon for this!