Changing the Theme Background for Skinner

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jun 19, 2003 Posts: 13

I'm using the skinner theme from pixdesign and was wondering how to change the theme background from white to a gif image tiled.

I went to my theme.php and in

Code:

//************************************************************************
//** color code for change of theme background (only inside main table) **
//************************************************************************
$bgcolor20 = "#ffffff"; // color code for theme background (part 1) - background exept sidebar backgrounds
$bgcolor21 = "#ffffff"; // color code for theme background (part 2) - background of left sideblocks (not inside block)
$bgcolor22 = "#ffffff"; // color code for theme background (part 3) - background of right sideblocks (not inside block)

I changed that too

Code:

$bgcolor21 = "themes/theme_name/images/BG.gif\"> "; // color code for theme background (part 2) - background of left sideblocks (not inside block)
$bgcolor22 = "themes/theme_name/images/BG.gif\"> "; // color code for theme background (part 3) - background of right sideblocks (not inside block)

but that didn't seem to work, it jus made a big... "error block" the size of the BG.gif (same spelling/caps as the one on server)

the error is

Quote:

" valign="top" background="themes/skinner/images/back1.gif" width="138">

but atleast the "area" size is same size as the gif it looks like

Opps wrong thing...

actually its in

Quote:

//**********************************
// color codes for themeheader **
//**********************************
$bgcolor5 = "#ffffff"; // color code for page background

but trying the above adjustment causes the site background to go a yellowish color, its like its being ignored :/

I've tried copying the line out from themes with a Background image and changing it to the path of my theme image but that dosen't work either

Corporal Joined: Jun 27, 2003 Posts: 53

i'm not sure (newbie)

but by what i understand bgcolor is for COLORS only not for images...

wot i did in mine was look in into tables and stuff.....

get the name of the file of the background that was there and search for it into the files.... you will see how they are located and where.....

so you can change

sry if i'm wrong but im 98% sure thats it

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jun 19, 2003 Posts: 13

I also tried...

Code:

/************************************************************/
/* Function themeheader() */
/************************************************************/

function themeheader() {
global $alttext1, $banners, $bgcolor5, $bgcolor6, $bgcolor7, $bgcolor8, $bgcolor9, $bgcolor20, $bgcolor21;
echo "<body background=\"themes/skinner/images/BG.jpg\" width=\"100%\" bgproperties=\"fixed\" topmargin=\"0\" leftmargin=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\">";
."<br>";
if ($banners) {
include("banners.php");
echo "<br>";
}

basically it kills the site doing that kills the site with

Quote:

Parse error: parse error in /home/airems/public_html/themes/skinner/theme.php on line 46

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: themeheader() in /home/airems/public_html/header.php on line 47

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jun 19, 2003 Posts: 13

Jerfersor wrote:

i'm not sure (newbie)

but by what i understand bgcolor is for COLORS only not for images...

wot i did in mine was look in into tables and stuff.....

get the name of the file of the background that was there and search for it into the files.... you will see how they are located and where.....

so you can change

sry if i'm wrong but im 98% sure thats it

Skinner theme unfortunantly has no background image, so I cannot look for that within the files to replace with a similar image to change the background "easily" :/

Corporal Joined: Jun 27, 2003 Posts: 53

but if you keep on trying to edit the bgcolor your are not going anywhere for sure...

try editing the theme.php

Code:

function themeheader() {
global $user, $banners, $sitename, $slogan, $cookie, $prefix, $dbi;
cookiedecode($user);
$username = $cookie[1];
if ($username == "") {
$username = "Anonymous";
}
echo "<BODY text=\"#FF0000\" vLink=\"#aaaeb3\" aLink=\"#aaaeb3\" link=\"#aaaeb3\" bgColor=\"#000000\" background=\"themes/YUOUR THEME/images/IMAGE.gif\" topMargin=\"0\"
marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\">";

thats sorta what i got what you need to do is edit the BODY section and add

Code:

background=\"themes/YUOUR THEME/images/YOUR BACKGROUND.gif

hope it helps look into other themes so you can compare