How do I change the phpBB theme?

Sergeant Joined: May 28, 2003 Posts: 83

Hey folks,

I remember reading somewhere you have the change the colors from the phpBB forum in your site theme's CSS. Is this true? If so, what tags do I need to add in order to configure it?

I tried to change the CSS in the standard subSilver phpBB folder, but the colors won't change.

Thanks in advance.

Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 12:42 pm

try the overall_header.tpl file. Some of the css styels are Hardcoded in that file for the Forum tempalte. And your themes in Nuke 6.5 SHOULD have the matching forum tempalte within their own directory called forums.

example. DeepBlue theme

theme/DeepBlue
theme/DeepBlue/images
theme/DeepBlue/forums <-where the forum template should now be in Nuke6.5

mikem

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jun 06, 2003 Posts: 30

I'm using Nuke 6.5 and the Kaput theme. Under \themes\Kaput I only have the folders: images and style. Should I copy the forums folder from the DeepBlue theme into the Kaput one? All themes except DeepBlue seem to be like this.

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 5:00 pm

In those cases of the OTHER themes in Nuke6.5 They will use the subSilver template in the modules/Forums/templates directory.
You can try and copy the forums folder from the DeepBlue theme. You more than likely will have to do a find in all files(in the forums folder) to replace

for this

Code:

themes/DeepBlue/forums/

to this

Code:

themes/Kaput/forums/

mikem

Sergeant Joined: May 28, 2003 Posts: 83

Just an update on this topic. I went into the overall_headers.tpl file and manually changed all the CSS to what I needed it to be. It looks as if this file just uses the existing CSS on the site, but since I wanted my forums to be a little different looking than the rest of the site, I edited that file and changed them to what I needed.

Thanks again folks.

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jun 24, 2003 Posts: 2

Greetings all. Please forgive my slow pick up on changing the themes in forums. I downloaded the megamax theme and uploaded it. It does have a /themes/MegaMax/forums folder which I would expect to be used in the PHPBB forums when this theme is selected.

As a test I selected a theme without a forums folder and I get the subsilver theme.
I then selected the DeepBlue theme which does have a forums folder and still got the subsilver theme.
FInally I selected the MegaMax theme again which does have a forums folder and got the subsilver theme.

As a last resort I set the site default theme to megamax but to no avail.

I'm not sure if I need to edit anything to use these themes or what I am missing. I am lost on this one.
any thoughts?
Thanks

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 5:34 pm

Hey JohnnyJag,
Just to make sure. When you switch to the DeepBlue theme and go to the Forums. Right click an image in the Forums and select properties. You will see the path is to the themes/DeepBlue/forums/images folder Wink

Now try a theme without a forums folder and you will get a path to the modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/images. Wink

Now, are you sure the new theme you have with the forums folder in it is a matching theme and template?
It may just be subSilver they used as the forum template for that theme. Check it to make sure.

mikem

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jun 24, 2003 Posts: 2

After posting I went in and checked the forum themes and it appeared as though they used the subsilver theme as their basis for the forums. Other themes that I installed that had new forum themes worked fine.
By bad. I should've checked deeper than I did.
Thanks