[pmwiki-users] Farm $PageTemplateFmt and $skin

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:13:45PM +0100, Clemens Gruber wrote:
> for a farm setup I use $PageTemplateFmt to specify the template. This is 
> necessary because the temlate is not on the sames server as the farm is, 
> the temlate is generated form an other CMS system. So I can not use 
> $skin to declare the template.
> ...
> What can I do? Can I use $skin with a skin on another server?

Actually, $Skin *can* declare a template, and you can even get it
to declare a template on another server.

Each skin ( in $FarmD/pub/skins/ ) is allowed to have a skin.php 
file, and the skin.php file can load the template.  If a skin.php
file loads a template, then PmWiki doesn't attempt to load one.

So, in the farm create a directory called pub/skins/cms/ , and in
that directory create a file called pub/skins/cms/skin.php that 
contains

  <?php
    LoadPageTemplate('http://example.com/the-pmwiki-template.tmpl');

Then, to select this skin, simply set $Skin = 'cms'; in your
farmconfig.php file, and the skin.php file will load the template
from the other server.  Since $PageTemplateFmt isn't set, other
local customizations can override the $Skin setting.  (And ?action=print
works as expected.)

Hope this works, and hope it helps!

Pm