Below, we will document some little template tricks. Typically show content depending on something. Can be done directly in templates/*.tpl files or in Admin > Look & Feel.
Starting in Tiki5, in Admin > Look & Feel (tiki-admin.php?page=look) > Miscellaneous, there is a Custom Code section to add custom CSS and JavaScript.
Apparently, a problem with my custom theme is preventing me from accessing my site normally.
Reset the theme "manually": If you can't access the admin pages to set your site's theme back to one that is known to work, you can reset the theme from the back end, so to speak.
Database method: Use phpmyadmin on your server to access your Tiki database. In the table "tiki_preferences", find the row for "site_style". Edit this row by replacing the custom theme name with a standard theme, such as thenews.css.
FTP method (easier): Using your FTP client, go to the styles directory of your Tiki installation and rename the theme currently set as the site theme, such as by changing its ".css" file extension to ".txt". Tiki will revert to the default. Log in using the default theme and fix what is wrong. Also clear the site caches.
When trying out a new theme, it is much better to use the "switch theme" module to select it. Don't make a new and untried theme the site theme without first trying it out from the switch-theme module.
To change themes, you can point your browser to a non faulty theme:
For some unknown reason the theme doesnt change. Look directly in the database in 'tiki_preferences'
look at:
UPDATE `tiki_preferences` SET `value` = 'fivealive.css' WHERE `tiki_preferences`.`name` = 'style';
{if $page neq ''} <a title="{tr}Print{/tr}" href="tiki-print.php?page={$page|escape:"url"}"> <img src="pics/icons/printer.png"/>{tr}Print{/tr} </a> {/if}
{if $user} Hello {$user} {/if}
{if $group eq "Admins"} You are a member of the group {$group} {/if}
{if $tiki_p_admin} You have full admin rights {/if}
{if $prefs.feature_wiki eq "y"} The Wiki feature is on {/if}
{if $prefs.language eq "fr"} <a href="accueil"> {elseif $prefs.language eq "es"} <a href="inicio"> {else} <a href="tiki-index.php"> {/if}{tr}Home{/tr}</a>
This is an Smarty block to display only if language matches.
It's one quick hack like PluginLang, but to use in modules and templates.
Example:
{translation lang="en"}Hello{/translation}
{translation lang="pt-br"}Olé{/translation}
If the current language is en, Hello will be displayed. If it is pt-br, Olé.
To make users switch language, you can add Module switch_lang or hard code some links such as:
{if $prefs.language eq "fr"} <a href="tiki-switch_lang.php?language=fr">-English-</a> -Français- <a href="tiki-switch_lang.php?language=es">-Español-</a> {elseif $prefs.language eq "es"} <a href="tiki-switch_lang.php?language=en">-English-</a> <a href="tiki-switch_lang.php?language=fr">-Français-</a> -Español- {else} -English- <a href="tiki-switch_lang.php?language=fr">-Français-</a> <a href="tiki-switch_lang.php?language=es">-Español-</a> {/if}
Admin > Look & Feel > Add HTML comment at start and end of each Smarty template (TPL)
New in 3.0, turn on "log_tpl" to add comments in templates (if you click view source, you can see which tpl was used to create it. Make sure to turn off once you go into production, or else your email notifications will also have a note!
Look in: templates/mail/
So if you want to modify tiki-searchresults.php, you find templates/tiki-searchresults.tpl
templates/tiki.tpl is the master container.
Say you want to affect the master container based on the current page, you can do
{if $mid eq "tiki-searchresults.tpl"} bla bla {/if}
You could use the Group Theme feature but it seems broken currently in Tiki 5 so here's a workaround using Javascript code in Admin > Look & Feel > General Layout > Custom HTML <head> Content ("Registered users can switch themes" - preference name change_theme - must be enabled):
{if !$user and $prefs.style ne "jqui.css"}<script type="text/javascript"> <!-- window.location = "tiki-switch_theme.php?theme=jqui.css" //--> </script>{/if}
{wiki}{literal} ::My __wiki__ code:: {/literal}{/wiki}
Put in a template or in Look & Feel custom code to have a popup with information on all the variables, at each page refresh.
{debug}
To avoid driving your users mad 😊
{if $user eq 'admin'} {debug} {/if}
Admin -> Category -> Categories used in templates (TPL)
(categories_used_in_tpl)
How to use? Something like
http://doc.tiki.org/Category+Admin#Using_the_current_object_categories_in_a_tpl
another
To determine if an object is categorized, use:
{if !empty($objectCategoryIds)} NOT categorized {else} AM categorized {/if}
{if $section eq "blogs"} text shown just when in one of the blog pages {/if}
The current perspective ID is not available to the templates. However, you can simply use the value of something that was overriden in this template. This could be in one of the Site identity fields.
{if $prefs.sitetitle eq "Workspace Sales"} {phplayers id=45 type=horiz css=y} {else} {phplayers id=47 type=horiz css=y} {/if}
How to display URL param in a page or the page name or the user name
http://themes.tiki.org/tiki-index_raw.php?page=Template+Tricks
http://themes.tiki.org/tiki-index_p.php?page=Template+Tricks
works for all features, not just wiki pages
http://themes.tiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Template+Tricks&fullscreen=y
related:
doc:Fullscreen
dev:Fullscreen
Templates Best Practices
Advanced Wiki Syntax usage examples