We strongly advise you to follow the same structure, as this will minimize the chances of "file not found" problems. Since creating a completely new style is a massive undertaking and requires a lot of skill, in which case you won't need this guide anyway , we need to choose an existing style to use as a "base".
As you will probably spend many hours creating your new style, choosing the right "base" style is essential. You want a solid foundation for your style. The easiest choice is obviously to use the default phpBB 3. Choosing a style like prosilver which has all the current template events in place will also ensure that extensions will function properly. Read more on this subject in the template events section. The first thing that needs to be done is creating the file structure for your new style.
See the file structure section to see what a basic skeleton looks like. When you have created all the required directories template, theme, images and the style. The most important file of any style as far as installation goes is the style. It provides information to your phpBB board about how to install and process the style. It generally looks like this:.
Most of this is pretty self explanatory. The most important values for our purposes are the name and parent fields, which indicate template inheritance. Let's say that we want to create a style based on prosilver. Our style. Instead of using prosilver as a "base" parent , we could also use another popular style which in turn inherits from prosilver. The code of any website needs certain elements for it to work properly.
Besides these elements, phpBB 3. If you are using a valid 3. The phpBB 3. So if you don't include this variable in your template, many extensions will break since their front-end styling relies on these files. Since version 3. Besides the fact that jQuery can be very handy for style authors, many extensions will utilize it too and depend on it being active. Therefore you should always include the instructions that load jQuery into your template. For more information on how to use the various template tags and conditionals, we advise you to take a look at our Development Wiki.
At this time, there are no dedicated entries yet specifically for 3. With the introduction of the extension system in phpBB 3. This greatly simplifies the installation, updating, and removal processes of functionality for styles. Many extensions will use these template events in order to add functionality to phpBB. If you want your style to become popular, you should definitely try to include as much of the "default" template events as possible.
Since prosilver is still the default style for phpBB 3. Including these events in roughly the same location as prosilver will ensure that future extensions will work with your style. Template inheritance is arguably the most useful thing about phpBB's template-engine for style authors. If you base a new style on an existing one, but you only want to change a few templates, you don't have to copy them all.
This would create a lot of identical copies of files on your server, and things would get cluttered pretty soon. It would also become very tedious to merge all the changes to the templates, if the "parent" style were to receive an update.
Enter template inheritance , requiring nothing more than a single line in your style. By specifying a "parent" in your style. The nice thing about this is that the process is completely transparent after template compilation and comes at practically no extra costs during runtime. This process can go multiple levels deep. So you can base your own child style on a child of a child of a child of a parent, like the branches of a tree hence the " styles tree ". Many styles start off by modifying existing styles such as prosilver , because creating a completely new style from scratch is an extremely time consuming undertaking.
The following example will show how easy and useful it is. Well the first thing to remember is that you only want to change these 2 parts now. You will likely want to change more and more parts as time progresses.
So the best course of action would be to create a "child" style of style X we'll called it style Y. Is that all? Not quite. You will notice that no theme assets CSS and images have been loaded. Built on Twitter Bootstrap 3 ,this theme comes with an attractive flat design and easy to customize, which makes it perfect for any kind of forum community. Marina is a great choice for building a community of any type. The theme has a sleek and intuitive metro style design which makes your forum community look awesome.
Is compatible with all the modern browsers and has 11 color schemes. The premium theme is compatible with all the modern browsers. The Metro theme is a fully responsive theme — it looks excellent on both desktops, laptops, tablets or phone screens! Clean and Modern Design that will look great on any community!. I think that this may be the right way to do what I want to achieve. I think that the other alternative would be possibly editing phpBB's index. Is this the right way to do things?
I'm a little unfamiliar with phpBB3. I'm just trying to figure out where the equivalent is. Thanks for your time. You will note in the 3. Note that you can introduce new templates i. No need to modify loads of files as with 2. A contentious decision has seen the ability to include PHP within the template introduced. This is achieved by enclosing the PHP within relevant tags:. Please be aware that the path-information of the PHP-file to include, refers to your phpBB-installation's root-path and not to the path where your template-file lies in!
The most significant addition to 3. The system deployed is very similar to Smarty. This may confuse some people at first but it offers great potential and great flexibility with a little imagination. In their most simple form these constructs take the form:. You can use various comparison methods standard as well as equivalent textual versions noted in square brackets including:.
Additionally some basic comparison types are defined:.
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