[pmwiki-users] Wikifarm + skinchange + $Skin problem

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 05:32:50PM -0400, Bronwyn Boltwood wrote:
> On my wikifarm, I keep the invocation for the skinchange recipe and
> its array of skins in farmconfig.php.  Today, I found that when I set
> $Skin for a field in its config.php, that it disables the skinchange
> recipe for that field.

Well, technically it doesn't "disable" skinchange, it just overrides
it.

> I want to set the default skin for each field separately, but allow it
> to be changed by the skinchange recipe.  I also want to keep the
> skinchange invocation stuff in farmconfig.php.  How can I do this?

In the field, use

   SDV($Skin, 'fieldskin');

which will set the $Skin for the field only if one hasn't already
been set (by skinchange.php).

Pm