[pmwiki-users] Path to skins question

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 05:58:10PM +0000, Hans wrote:
> Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 5:10:53 PM, Patrick wrote:
> > The key question to resolving this is to know if the page is
> > being displayed with or without the skin template.  If you're
> > getting a "skin not found" error, that indicates a problem with
> > the filesystem path (the key).  If the page is displaying
> > but none of the .css and/or .gif images are loading, that's
> > a problem with the url portion and/or $FarmPubDirUrl.
> 
> The problem lies with the filesystem path, i.e. "skin not found"
> error, despite what I wrote earlier. At least that is the problem
> occurring now. Sorry for the confusion.
> 
> And from what you wrote I take that for the keys in $SkinLibDirs
> PmWiki wants absolute filepaths.

PmWiki doesn't care, it's PHP that seems to require absolute filepaths.

> I also take that Pmwiki only knows $FarmD as an absolute filesystem path?

Well, PmWiki knows other paths as well, via various system variables
through PHP.  For example, you could potentially use 
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] to get the absolute filepath

    $FarmPubDirPath = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/farm/pub';
    $FarmPubDirUrl = '/farm/pub';

and then later when setting $SkinLibDirs

    "$FarmPubDirPath/skins/\$Skin" => "$FarmPubDirUrl/skins/\$Skin"

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