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[m Friend mJoin date: November 2010Posts: 23Downloads:27Uploads:4]

#163643

Hi there,

I have multiple templates installed on a site. I would like to be able to switch between these templates from the frontend of the website. This is fairly easy to do, there is a joomla module out there that does it. The problem is, clicking on a link will always revert the site back to the default template.

For example, you can append the following to the URL to load a different template:

?template=template_name

but when you click on a link, you lose that URL appendix. What can I do to keep the template switched? I imagine it would be adding something to the templateDetails.xml and then some php code to the index.php file. However, the T3 framework makes this kind of modification confusing!

Suggestions?

[Thanh Nguyen Viet Friend Thanh Nguyen VietJoin date: September 2014Posts: 1461Downloads:0Uploads:44 Thanked: 258 times in 217 posts]

#390100

You must create cookie to store a template that user selected.
The code snippet to do that can be placed on the module that you installed to switching between templates.

Note: the cookie should be exactly named as “template_name”

[m Friend mJoin date: November 2010Posts: 23Downloads:27Uploads:4]

#390112

What about appending a ” ?template=XYZ ” argument to every menu URL? Could this be done with some PHP in the template’s index.php file? Question is, using the T3 template, the only thing a template’s index.php file does is redirect to the JAT3 plugin. Also, the actual template XYZ name could be hard coded or take a value from the templateDetails.xml file.

The nicest solution would be to build this function into the cpanel.php feature… but as a quick fix, it should be fairly easy to tell a template to append it’s name to the end of every menu URL.

Suggestions on the best way to do this?

[Thanh Nguyen Viet Friend Thanh Nguyen VietJoin date: September 2014Posts: 1461Downloads:0Uploads:44 Thanked: 258 times in 217 posts]

#390367

Please try to add the below code snippet into “template switcher” module.

[PHP]if(isset($_GET[‘template’])) {
JRequest::setVar(‘template’, $_GET[‘template’], ‘COOKIE’);
}[/PHP]

<blockquote>What about appending a ” ?template=XYZ ” argument to every menu URL? </blockquote>
It is only needed when you switch to new template, you don’t need to add it to each url

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